MF202 / MF35 Steering Wheel Removal

Caryc

Well-known Member
I have a top column power steering seal blown so the first thing I have to do is remove the steering wheel. I ran across this video on Youtube with one guy removing his wheel. He really butchered the job and wound up cutting it off. It's worth watching just to see him screw it up that bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B82DU3PHjGo

Anyway, I was a little worried because some dumbbell evidently drilled the dimple hole in my steering column stud off center the same as he did. Anyway, on my 202 there was no room under the wheel to get a three jaw puller on it. So I had to use the bearing puller with the flat side up as you see in the picture.

I got a 5/8-18 nut to put on it before I put the puller on it so I wouldn't split it like the guy in the video did. But the new nut wouldn't screw on and I was afraid to screw up the threads on the column so I wound up not using it.

The puller had a bearing on it for the dimple as you see in the picture. I think this also helped in not splitting the column top as the guy in the video did. You can also see how my post was drilled off center.

I put that puller on it a 3 PM yesterday and tightened it up without getting nuts about it. At hourly intervals, I sprayed it with Amsoil MP and tapped on the post with a hammer and tightened the puller another half turn. Using that bearing puller, I was able to use those two top nuts to adjust it so that it was pulling up straight, not crooked like the guy in the video.

Anyway, it finally popped loose about 9:30 AM this morning. If you actually watch what the guy in the video does to his, you'll see why I'm happy with my outcome.

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Nicely done, oftentimes we get in too much of a hurry and do more damage than good. Your method is very good, time, patience, upward pressure, tapping with a hammer.

If that didn't do it, the addition of a little heat on the hub of the wheel may have helped.

I'm very interested to see how you make out with this steering issue.
 
(quoted from post at 11:12:27 04/12/18) Nicely done, oftentimes we get in too much of a hurry and do more damage than good. Your method is very good, time, patience, upward pressure, tapping with a hammer.

If that didn't do it, the addition of a little heat on the hub of the wheel may have helped.

I'm very interested to see how you make out with this steering issue.

How are you going to heat that with the plastic all around it?

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How are you going to heat that with the plastic all around it?

Well, if you're trying to save the wheel, probably not a good idea! :)

Steering wheels are cheap, if it had to come off I'd heat it if your method didn't work.
 
I tried various pullers and some heat on my 35 but in the end I did cut it off. The plastic around the wheel was mostly broken away and it was badly rusted so replacement had already been ordered.
 
(quoted from post at 11:12:27 04/12/18) Nicely done, oftentimes we get in too much of a hurry and do more damage than good. Your method is very good, time, patience, upward pressure, tapping with a hammer.

If that didn't do it, the addition of a little heat on the hub of the wheel may have helped.

I'm very interested to see how you make out with this steering issue.

I just ordered that top seal repair kit from YT. I'll let you know how things work out.
 
(quoted from post at 17:25:23 04/12/18)
(quoted from post at 11:12:27 04/12/18) Nicely done, oftentimes we get in too much of a hurry and do more damage than good. Your method is very good, time, patience, upward pressure, tapping with a hammer.

If that didn't do it, the addition of a little heat on the hub of the wheel may have helped.

I'm very interested to see how you make out with this steering issue.

I just ordered that top seal repair kit from YT. I'll let you know how things work out.

Any progress yet Cary?
 
(quoted from post at 14:55:16 04/17/18)
(quoted from post at 17:25:23 04/12/18)
(quoted from post at 11:12:27 04/12/18) Nicely done, oftentimes we get in too much of a hurry and do more damage than good. Your method is very good, time, patience, upward pressure, tapping with a hammer.

If that didn't do it, the addition of a little heat on the hub of the wheel may have helped.

I'm very interested to see how you make out with this steering issue.

I just ordered that top seal repair kit from YT. I'll let you know how things work out.

Any progress yet Cary?

I got the seal kit yesterday. I have a few things to do so I'll probably start working on it sometime this week.
 

It kind of surprised me though that the seal is rubber. It does have a spring in it but that's the only metal part so it shouldn't be hard to remove the old one and put the new one in.

I actually ordered another seal from Quinn Co. just to be sure it was the correct seal. The seal kit from YT came in a blister pack marked for Ford tractors with every Ford number on it but not the MF202.

The one from Quinn was the same seal though and marked with the Massey Ferguson part number.
 

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