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01-19-2012, 08:59 PM
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Unable to pull, the steering wheel off the shaft.
Hi again guys. I'm having another tough time with my old CC 125, and I need to get this thing going again, cuz I have a few mounds of dirt that need to be moved with my nice little Danco loader. I started getting into the steering problems, and of course rebuilding the steering box requires the removal of the steering wheel in order to drop the steering box and shaft etc out through the bottom of the frame. Getting the big nut off the steering wheel shaft was a two day affair...using a lot of PB Blaster, some hammering, and a very long breaker bar on the socket wench. That was just the beginning. I tried several styles and sizes of three hook gear pullers...to no avail. I applied a torch....I only succeeded in burning up the steering wheel plastic hub center. I didn't care...I want to replace the wheel with a larger one...If I can find one to fit. I have now stripped away the charred remains of the plastic hub center, exposing the steel wheel hub. It is actually still quite useable as it is. However, all of the heating, hammering, and torquing down on the various standard three-hook gear pullers has failed to budge the frozen wheel from the steering shaft spline. Does anyone have a magic thought on wheel removal that may make my tomorrow, a bit better than today was.
Thanks in advance to all.....you guys are always a great source of help. Jim 
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01-19-2012, 09:13 PM
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See if this might help. Has worked for me quite well.
http://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/s...steering+wheel
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01-19-2012, 09:21 PM
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Thanks jbrewer !! I swing a 3 pound hammer!! Well I always use that hammer!!
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01-20-2012, 06:49 AM
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Hey!
Glad it helped.... it was just a variation on an existing theme (solvent+impact+pressure)
I think the upward knee pressure/patience with PBblaster/impact will loosen the Washington Monument with enough time. Make sure to back the nut off until the shaft end is protected, and use some sort of flat steel in between the nut and the hammer face, and you're good! My "O" had sat in the N. Carolina rain for 8 years... and it STILL came off. John
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01-20-2012, 07:33 AM
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I have had the same luck getting a steering wheel off a 125. I ended up splitting the top of the shaft, ruining the threads. I called it quits after that. Hope you have better luck than I did.
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01-20-2012, 09:39 AM
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All are very good suggestions.
These ideas give me some more good tricks to try today.
Overnight, I left the puller on the wheel hub, torqued down as hard as I could get it, and let the thing soak in PB Blaster throughout the night. I am hoping that the PB Blaster and the puller tension might soften things up. We shall see! More news to follow soon. jim
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