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Re: Steering wheel removal secrets

To: Dave Yealy <lbc@littlebitcountry.com>
Subject: Re: Steering wheel removal secrets
From: "Larry B. Macy, Ph.D." <macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:37:02 -0400
Chris, Rob and I can come up and get this on video!! we can add to  
the OSHIT site

Larry
On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Dave Yealy wrote:

> The first thing you will want to do is setup the movie camera to  
> film this. Then back the nut off till it's flush with the top of  
> the shaft, your trying to protect the end of the shaft from flaring  
> and your face at the same time.  Then assume the driving position  
> and place a knee on either side of the steering wheel in order to  
> put extreme pressure on the back side of the steering wheel. Check  
> nut again to make sure it's flush, and take the biggest hammer you  
> have, while exerting extreme pressure with your knees, smack the  
> end of the steering shaft.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> What's the secret to removing a steering wheel? I've tried  
>> pulling, and
>> smacking the column with a hammer, a little PB blaster, more pulling,
>> more hammering, more hammering while pulling, and the thing  
>> refuses to
>> budge. What have I missed? Or am I gong to need to spend a month  
>> at the
>> gym first?
>>
>> It's a '79 four spoke wheel, if that makes any difference.
>

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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104


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