Can't remove steering wheel, Steering wheel is stuck on the steering column and won't budge |
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Can't remove steering wheel, Steering wheel is stuck on the steering column and won't budge |
mintyish |
Nov 11 2020, 10:04 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 9-March 12 From: Auckland New Zealand Member No.: 14,235 Region Association: None |
So - this is weird.
I have a '75 2 litre. With a Momo Prototipo steering wheel fitted - I presume with a non-Porsche hub to suit. I first removed the wheel in 2012 to replace the upper column bearing that had broken up allowing the column to short out and blast the horn in the middle of The Castro in San Francisco...what fun! Hubby was not amused! Anyway, the first time I removed the wheel it was really stuck on the column and I think I just ended up using brute force to get it off. In July this year I removed it again to fit an electric washer pump switch - being a '75 I used the intermittent flick switch to trigger the pump relay - and the wheel slid off like a knife through butter... This afternoon - wanting to remove the wheel to fit LED bulbs in the instruments - the wheel slides about 4mm up the splines on the column then stops dead - like its hitting a spring clip on the shaft. It's a definite metal sounding clunking stop. I'm completely baffled. It will not budge an inch past the initial 4mm and I'm reaching the point of thinking I'll break something - so Ive stopped to consider what I've missed. Any ideas? Whilst I couldn't get the wheel off, I still managed to get the instruments out far enough to change the bulbs - and they work! Thank-you 914Rubber :-) John |
Shivers |
Nov 14 2020, 07:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2,449 Joined: 19-October 20 From: La Quinta, CA Member No.: 24,781 Region Association: Southern California |
An old dude showed me how they had removed them for years. Get the nut loose, but do not remove. Sitting in the drivers seat, grab right side of wheel and pull hard, release and pull hard on left side and release. Do this back and forth, right to left, pulling hard enough to mal shape the wheel but not to bend or break until it pops loose. Works every time for me, don't forget not to remove nut all the way.
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