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Steering Wheel Removal

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Hedgeapple Farm

12-28-2006 10:49:18




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I'm a rookie at restoration. How do you remove a steering wheel. I tried pushing out the pin on the shaft but it didn't want to move. Do I need a bigger hammer?




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graybeard

12-29-2006 11:14:19




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to Hedgeapple Farm, 12-28-2006 10:49:18  
Are you going to put the same steering wheel back on, or are you replacing it? I REPLACED the wheel on my WD last summer and I had the old one off and new one on in about an hour. Of course the old wheel was destroyed in the process, but there was no damage at all to the the steering shaft....there is no heavy pounding, only cutting, followed with a very small amount of heating.



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Hedgeapple Farm

12-29-2006 12:02:53




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to graybeard, 12-29-2006 11:14:19  
I'm trying to remove wheels from my WD and WD45 and switch them out, putting the better of the two on the WD45 so I don't want to damage either unless absolutely unavoidable. I like Old's idea of removing both still attached to the shafts and switching them out. That seems like a lot less work and accomplishes what I need to get done.



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JMS/MN

12-28-2006 13:20:05




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to Hedgeapple Farm, 12-28-2006 10:49:18  
You don't want to get too wild with the bfh. Quadrants are not cheap to replace when they break. I'd remove the pin on the top side of the steering knuckle, alngside the engine, then pull the assembly out of the tractor. Either lots of heat to loosen the pin and drive it out, or mount it in a drill press and drill out the pin. Bit more work, but easier to handle and no risk of making more parts.

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old

12-28-2006 12:21:49




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to Hedgeapple Farm, 12-28-2006 10:49:18  
First off what is the tractor you working on, goes a long ways if we know that since most are differant in the ways the steering wheel is held on. Now if it is a pin then one thing that will help is heat and a lot of it. Heat the hub of the wheel and then afte it cools some try to drive the pin out. Now if its one that should be a bolt and the head is broken off then you could beat on it for years and never get it out. AS I said more info in what your working on will help us help you. Always include that when asking question since some of us answer 100 of question every week and we can not remember what all a person has. Shoot I have 30 plus tractors so if I ask a question I have to say what tractor it is

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old

12-28-2006 13:55:10




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to old, 12-28-2006 12:21:49  
JMS has the easy way to do it. Drive the pin out of the U-joint down lower then pull the steering wheel and shaft off. Then you can get to to somethime solid where you can both heat and also be able to get some real hard hits on the pin. Or as he said drill the pin out. But most of the time heating it up good will get it to loosen up and you can drive it out. Or for that matter you could just swap the whole steering shaft form the one to the other and then you don't have to work so hard at the pin

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old

12-28-2006 13:54:15




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to old, 12-28-2006 12:21:49  
JMS has the easy way to do it. Drive the pin out of the U-joint down lower then pull the steering wheel and shaft off. Then you can get to to somethime solid where you can both heat and also be able to get some real hard hits on the pin. Or as he said drill the pin out. But most of the time heating it up good will get it to loosen up and you can drive it out

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Hedgeapple Farm

12-28-2006 12:36:03




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to old, 12-28-2006 12:21:49  
It's a WD45.

I'd split and spread but the one I'm having trouble with is the good one off my old WD.



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old

12-28-2006 13:41:57




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to Hedgeapple Farm, 12-28-2006 12:36:03  
Ok that will maybe help some. I'll go out here in a little and look at my WDs and WD45 and see if I can then explin how to get one off.



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Lumpy

12-28-2006 12:12:33




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 Re: Steering Wheel Removal in reply to Hedgeapple Farm, 12-28-2006 10:49:18  
Quite often the wheel can be rusted to the steering shaft and problamatic trying to remove.

If it were a restoration I might line up the replacement then break out the sawzall and cut down the side, then spread it.

The normal method might be to use a puller tool. They have a tool called a steering wheel puller but I don't think they work for many tractors without something like a bearing spreader to get behind it.

If you pound on the "pin" and it is the threaded thing the nut came off of it will mess that up and cause more grief.

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