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Originally Posted by ironman
If you want to call what you pointed out a tapered steering shaft, that's fine with me, but this is what I'm talking about......
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We're both talking about the same thing.
I can't tell exactly where the taper is considered to begin here, or where it ends, and I haven't used any sophisticated means to determine the perpendicularity of my diameter measurements, but with ends that vary by about 0.038", separated by a length of about ¾", that's pretty much exactly 0.050" per inch (which would be 0.0375"), which is characteristic of a Jarno taper.
A #6 Jarno taper starts at ¾" and tapers to 0.6" over a length of 3½", so this GM steering wheel taper appears to be a modified Jarno taper.
To clarify my point, and the reason I've been a PIA about it, I wanted to make clear that when pulling a Cub steering wheel, you are not (or not necessarily) trying to break free the large surface are of a rusted spline; you are generally trying to break a taper connection, which is a slightly different animal than a rusted splined shaft, and will require significant force even if it is not rusted at all.
- Eric