Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Drew, a redneck steering wheel puller: http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/uploads/1568/steering_wheel_puller.jpg

Very interesting.

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[Alien]

All the years working as a mechanic I never had a problem pulling a steering wheel off.

Loosen the nut. Put your knees under the bottom part pushing up. Grab the top of the wheel firmly with one hand and pull up hard putting pressure on with your knees at the same time. Get a decent sized hammer. The nut should be flush with the top of the thread. ONE good whack on the nut with the hammer and the wheel will be loose. It is easy to do. No need to whack whack whack. Just one good blow and you will not damage the nut or thread. No need for any pullers.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. No sun again, although it's hard to complain about that, or the wind, when the first week in February is giving temperatures of 10C/50F at 9am.

As a respectful amount of time has now gone by since my rain jacket passed away, I'm out this morning looking for a replacement. My wife has done the research on where to go, so I've a feeling I'm about to be suckered into a shopping expedition that will embrace a lot more than outdoor clothing.

All the years working as a mechanic I never had a problem pulling a steering wheel off.

Loosen the nut. Put your knees under the bottom part pushing up. Grab the top of the wheel firmly with one hand and pull up hard putting pressure on with your knees at the same time. Get a decent sized hammer. The nut should be flush with the top of the thread. ONE good whack on the nut with the hammer and the wheel will be loose. It is easy to do. No need to whack whack whack. Just one good blow and you will not damage the nut or thread. No need for any pullers.

Drew, if you ask your helper (with good knees) to follow Alien's advice, it should move. If you want to do it yourself, perhaps you could make a custom puller. Get a flat plate of steel and drill a hole through the middle. Tack a nut below the hole on one side. A bolt from above can then be screwed down through the nut to apply pressure in the centre and give you the upward pull. Get 3 U bolts and drill holes in the plate for these so that they fit under each arm on the steering wheel and through the plate.

 

[daugen]

Loosen the nut.

perhaps this applies to me...

thanks for all the suggestions. Going to go eyeball it again. So Alien and Eric you think I can scare it out of there, eh?
we shall see...stay tuned.

still dark out so can't see how flooded things are but this system has been a dumper. I bet we've had over five inches of rain. Will be interesting to see if my driveway is under water, but maybe it came down slowly enough last night to dissipate, but it will be weeks before things dry out.

a much colder 39 degrees not going up much today in a colder trend. Looks like it's snowing from Virginia to Maine right now

 

[Thomas]

30F cloudy maybe degree or two more for high,dusting snow forecast or 1-3 inches if storm doesn't stay south.

It's Friday :cool2: nuff said.

Enjoy the weekend all.

 

[Buppies]

34 this morning breezy skiff of snizzle on deck high of 41 later today. This snow will like its chances on the coast. Drew hope you get that steering wheel off

 

[daugen]

34 this morning breezy skiff of snizzle on deck high of 41 later today. This snow will like its chances on the coast. Drew hope you get that steering wheel off

thanks Randy. Ok, I know things are different in Virginia but could you translate
skiff of snizzle

good one!

 

[Buppies]

Snizzle sort of between snow and sleet looks like little ball when observed up close. The close proximity to snow and sleet therefore Snizzle. Hope this helps and my weather geek is showing

 

[Buppies]

Wow Drew I knew you wrote this because of email from TBN first I've gotten in I don't know when

 

[daugen]

Wow Drew I knew you wrote this because of email from TBN first I've gotten in I don't know when

I think they just fixed a broken email notification system and lots of emails went out. I don't have it on so I have no idea.

 

[wngsprd]

36 and snowing...not sticking and should get up to 45.

Glad I don't have a stuck steering wheel, but it's nice that I'm learning a lot. That's what is good about TBN...always someone that knows how to tackle every problem.

Worked on busting out more of my creek's dam yesterday...my dog was pulling sticks out of it as fast as I was. Still some chain saw work to do once it dries out more, but for now got it flowing well through the opening I made.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 23F here, heading to only 27F. Got Saturday off but it's back to work on Sunday.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Spittin snow this morning. 37°

 

[ronjhall]

Need to get up and pour second cup of coffee. 48° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 69° with mostly sunny skies. Going to local flea market. Then some patio time.
Drew, you got lots of idea's on how to remove steering wheel. Hope one works.
Buppies, skiff of snizzle? :confused3: Did a Google search. Still :confused2:.
Good Morning All.

 

[farmer2009]

25 this morning and headed to 50 today.

Last half of birds arrive this morning. Never did get to start taxes yesterday. Maybe today. I dred taxes.

 

[daugen]

steady rain last night has stopped, literally rained for days on end, over an inch and a half added to yesterday's three plus so we got close to 5 inches of rain.
Time to check the front street ditches and see what delights are stuck in there. Cleaned the culverts out yesterday, knew I'd have to do it again.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Not a cloud in the sky and I'm running with the big boys on the frigid temps this morning with 29˚. However the wind is shifting again and we will hit 60˚.

One of our forever Moderators here on TBN, Bird, started a thread in "Front Porch" last night. He is having Stent/bypass surgery this morning starting in 30 minutes. We wish him the best. The Good Morning group probably knows what diet I'll recommend for a permanent recovery.

I found out through sources that one of Austin's major Hospitals is adopting the Ornish plan in their "intensive" cardiac rehab. It has been medicare approved and has been successful in other hospitals.
Ornish Lifestyle Medicine | Certified Site & Alumni Community Directory

Now Texas just has 2 cardiac rehabs that offer this intensive rehab, but lucky for Bird they are in the Dallas Area.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 41F @ 5:30 AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 61F. Winds light and variable.

The highest chance of precipitation in the next 10 days is only 20%, so we'll be high and dry here for the foreseeable future. North and west of here is seeing some improvement in their drought status, but here it's still extreme, the worst of the rankings. But if the dry spell had to come, it couldn't have picked a better time, as it fits perfectly with a pair of camping weekends over the next two weeks. :cool2:

Finished up the first of a pair of downed oaks yesterday, and sure have a lot of slash burning to do. A lot of limb wood made it into the firewood stack last time, and though it burns, it doesn't burn very cleanly and is a LOT more work to put up. So this time around that stuff is just going on the burn pile. I did get to try out the tractor forks on moving it, and I think it'll work a whole lot better than the 4-in-1 bucket.

TGIF folks!

 

[rswyan]

OK, I use the muriatic acid in my pool to adjust PH.

You should be good to go then ...

Muriatic acid is nasty stuff and can cause severe burns (via fumes) of the respiratory tract and mucosa, as well as permanent blindness if you splash it in your eyes.

Needless to say, extreme safety precautions (respirator, full face shield, rubber gloves and apron) would probably be a wise idea.

Steel will flash rust after you rinse the muriatic acid off with water ... but it's possible to minimize this by working on a warm, sunny day ... or by using a hot water rinse that warms the metal up, so that the residual rinse water evaporates quickly. And you can always treat any minor flash rusting with phosphoric acid to convert the rust.

When working with muriatic acid, do it outside, in an area where there isn't anything you want to rust, because the fumes alone will cause ferrous metal to rust.

Hope this helps.

Be careful.

 

[ronjhall]

One of our forever Moderators here on TBN, Bird, started a thread in "Front Porch" last night. He is having Stent/bypass surgery this morning starting in 30 minutes. We wish him the best. The Good Morning group probably knows what diet I'll recommend for a permanent recovery.

Prayers for a good friend and TBN Moderator.