Steering Wheel Removal-2006 Workhorse Chassis

PoppiBrown wrote:
I need to remove the steering wheel from my 2007 Southwind in order to remove the refer through the driver's side door. Any tips and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

PoppiBrown,
Steering wheels can be a bear to pull without a puller. I don't know if I've got lucky over the years or, just refused to be the looser in the battle of pulling steering wheels. While some may not approve of this method, it's worked for me, every single time. Basically, I've removed all retention, nuts, washers anything and everything that may retain that wheel to the shaft and, with both arms straight as can be, grab hold of each side of the Steering wheel, preferably where the spokes are attached, and sort of tip my shoulders back and forth sort of "tweaking" the steering wheel a tad bit with each shoulder move.

What I'm doing in that maneuver is, simply finitely tweaking the tapered/splined hold that the outer section has on the inner shaft. 100% of the time, within a few seconds, those steering wheels POP off. Steering wheels are pretty darn strong and can take a lot of thrust/torque in various directions. I've NEVER even come close to braking one or even cracking it. I have yet to be defeated using this method. Maybe one of these days, I'll buy a puller, probably when I quit working on my own vehicles.
Scott