Malcolm Cliff Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 The steering wheel will not budge,tried a two leg puller just now,no movement at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Barrett Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Have you tried a little heat to expand the boss as the aluminium will conduct quicker than the steering shaft 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®evo03 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Also try putting the nut back on loosely. Socket. Ext. Bar and thumper. If the socket is too deep. Use a share nut, to take up the space, a little heat, knees behind steering wheel, 1 crack, hopefully. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutty2006 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Many a manta owner have lost teeth removing steering wheels. Like above, leave nut on and rag the f**k out of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®evo03 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 But with nut on as said, teeth will be safe. Only a nut would leave nut off 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmanta Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 The correct two leg puller is required so you don't shear the nylon rods that join the two halves of the column to each other at the sleeve joint, if you "rag f£$% out of it" you often will have a rattly column afterwards and if its really bad an MOT fail because of up and down movement. The correct puller is this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175452460988?hash=item28d9c817bc:g:RDIAAOSw2aVjJxHd&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsIUiI1zvGLqxX2zYn0zflDdts9SByF5Y%2FWawbdqJAF0TGcPY6EukConwlC057WNHb7qS0K%2FsBP5C5fsDoEIrBrplQysE4OgCYErSBmcBtHacqzYygn%2Bfv0J3ZMxTmw63Ph671ufV4ANBgK9SOC1nxPp3x8yDTX%2FwnAPIVpXhdkXtfN%2BuqzGeZlZpYWRV40P4b4XSmiKoViUJi3zH2ITQvE1J9xPKnpJkxGxcraKm5SYT|tkp%3ABk9SR6bBt-GAYQ Its cheap and will remove the wheel without needing to beat anything and risk damage. If you have a damaged column it can be repaired by removing the rods from the column, pulling them apart, cleaning them and then removing the broken bit of nylon from the outer rod. Then you mark the inner rod where the nylon went into the outer shaft and pop the outer one back on, line up inner and out to the mark. Use a fine drill bit to make a hole right through the inner and outer (its easy because you are drilling nylon all the way through. You then need to insert a fresh piece of super thin nylon rod (same size as you drilled) or use a piece of mig wire. The idea of the nylon is to stop rattles but the column is split in two so in an accident the nylon rods break and the column can collapse at the lower lattice. Another reason not to beat the wheel to remove is the lattice can get damaged and so can the shear mounts at the top. Do columns properly, they are required to be safe. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Cliff Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 Thanks very much,very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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