Thread: Stuck steering wheel

Interesting. What is Lanox? Are you talking about coating the hub with it?

I was worried about heating the cast aluminium hub too much.

Originally Posted by 5380

I pulled one off last week that had been sitting out in the weather for many years. It was very corroded and stuck on hard! After removing the pinch bolt, which must be torally removed as it locks into the groove in the column to stop the wheel from coming off if the nut comes loose. But I guess you have already done this. First, I cleaned out all the dirt and rust in the top of the bore of the wheel to expose the splines. Heat and penetrating lube. I heat it until the Inox /Lanox (Lanox seems to work well) starts to smoke and bubble a bit, then I tapped a smooth thin tapered wedge or blunt chisel up into the clamping slot parallel to the column taking care not to bruise the alloy casting. Keep heating, cooling, spraying and tapping and wriggling the wheel and all of a sudden, off she comes! As in previous suggestions, don't hit youself in the face when it finally comes off!
good luck! 5380

This is what I've been working with. But going to get something like a harmonic balancer puller today and make something different.

Originally Posted by McBrain283

Interesting. What is Lanox? Are you talking about coating the hub with it?

I was worried about heating the cast aluminium hub too much.

Lanox is one of the Inox products. Lanox contains lanolin. The Inox spray is like WD only better, and Australian I believe.

Finally got some time to spend on it this week and it came off.

For other's information: it needed a lot more force than I would have thought - I guess that's what happens when you have a cast aluminium part fitted to a steel shaft.

It didn't come off with one bang and then slide the rest of the way, there were a series of noisy movements and it needed the puller all the way.

Here is the setup I used. The base of the yoke is very thin and soft, I guess I could have made a wooden pad or something but it is relatively undamaged.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Thank you for completing the story!

Originally Posted by McBrain283

Finally got some time to spend on it this week and it came off.

For other's information: it needed a lot more force than I would have thought - I guess that's what happens when you have a cast aluminium part fitted to a steel shaft.

It didn't come off with one bang and then slide the rest of the way, there were a series of noisy movements and it needed the puller all the way.

Here is the setup I used. The base of the yoke is very thin and soft, I guess I could have made a wooden pad or something but it is relatively undamaged.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Just out of curiosity, which wheel shown in post #7 have you got ?
.W.