Steering Wheel Removal-2006 Workhorse Chassis

FIRE UP wrote:

RLS7201 wrote:
If no air bag, this method has worked for me for over 50 years.
Loosen the nut until it's flush with the shaft, get you knees behind the steering wheel and apply force, grab two ball peen hammers, lay the flat end of the first hammer on the shaft and hit the first hammer with the second hammer. The pressure from your knees will keep the shaft from collapsing unto its self. A couple of taps will release the tapered fit. Final removal of the nut will repair, if any thread damage to the shaft.

Richard

Hey Richard,
How ya doin'? Member me, Scott, met you and Eric at Quartzsite. Your method is pretty darn close to mine for extracting a stuck steering wheel but, I have one thing that maybe should be a word of caution here is, banging two hammers together is kind-a not too good of an idea. I'm certainly no metalergical expert but, I've just been told all my life that two hammers should not be used against each other.
I've been told that one of them can shatter due to the way the hammers are hardened. Just thinking here.
Scott

Well darn it! Now you tell me after a lifetime of banging hammers together. Maybe the midwest hammers are made differently, than the left coast hammers. Never shattered a ball peen hammer but have had to reshape them after they mushroomed. Now where is that old time blacksmith that taught me the two hammer trick?

Richard