Re: Steering Wheel Removal

Here you go. This is the wheel we restored - before and after.

Dave
'64 Belvedere 2DHT
318 Poly, Push Button Auto

From: Herb <zephyr9900@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 1962to1965mopars <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

BTW would like to see the finished wheel installed! It always makes you feel good when a project is compleat!! Photos please?

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From: Herb

Date: 7/7/2013 10:58:41 PM

To: 1962to1965mopars

Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

OK , the puller. This field expedient method has worked just fine for me in the past when you find a great wheel in a junkyard and no puller! Loosen the center nut and stop when the top of the nut is flush with shaft. Now, act like a kid having a temper tantrum and with your fists bang the outer part of the wheel, right, left, right, left. Now planting your feet on the floor on both sides of the column grab the wheel and pull it up wiggling right, left, right, left and it should pop loose. You might have to repeat the procedure a couple of times. If know one cranked the bolt down sometime in the past it should be easy. Now if someone has been in there and run it down you will probably need a puller.

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From: Dave64

Date: 7/7/2013 10:38:08 PM

To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

I did have the donor wheel all apart when I restored it. The old wheel is still on the car. I wasn't looking at the "new" restored wheel when I was outside working on getting the original wheel off, so I didn't see the extra threaded holes since I didn't take the horn bar off. I didn't think to go look at the restored wheel in the house. Since I don't have the right puller, I wasn't sure what I was looking for for a purchase point. I was thinking more along the lines of pulling the drums off my tapered axles - pulling from farther outside of the hub. I figured it had to be simpler than I was seeing, but I think the 70 degree dewpoint was baking my brain out there. LOL

I knew you guys would be able to help - thanks.

Dave'64 Belvedere 2DHT318 Poly, Push Button Auto

From: Herb <zephyr9900@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 1962to1965mopars <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

Yes I see your pictures and am still confused how you restored it with every thing attached?????

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From: Dave64

Date: 7/7/2013 10:15:50 PM

To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

The wheel I restored came from a parts car. My original wheel is still on the car.

Dave '64 Belvedere 2DHT 318 Poly, Push Button Auto

From: Herb <zephyr9900@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 1962to1965mopars <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

How did you restore your wheel and don't know how to get it apart to remove it or reinstall it???? Did you restore it with the horn mechanism and trim still installed and worked around it??? Just wondering?

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From: Dave64

Date: 7/7/2013 8:24:43 PM

To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Steering Wheel Removal

One of the things I'm scratching my head over is finding the right place to pull it from. It's a '64 Plymouth sport wheel, so it has a double horn ring. Pulling in the edges of the ring isn't good because it moves, and it's hard to get in between the ring bars and the back of the wheel. See the attached pic. By the way, this is a pic of the wheel we restored before we started working on it.

Thanks,

Dave '64 Belvedere 2DHT 318 Poly, Push Button Auto

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