Re: [Amc-list] Nash (Rambler) steering wheel puller

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

I recall it being a fine thread, but not exactly sure what it was. I *think* it was 20, but that's not fine enough! Mine would only thread in 3-4 threads -- just enough to pull the wheel, and close enough to do it without cross threading. A machine shop measured the threads as best they could on an old steering wheel I had beat off. It was cracked up anyway, and I had found a better one in a nearby junkyard, just needed a puller to get it off! I'd try 24 TPI next. It might be something odd like 22 TPI, but I doubt that. Does anyone have an original tool that could be measured, or one of the repros?  

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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:33:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Frank Swygert wrote:
> Tom, I posted about making a steering wheel puller a month or two ago
> (maybe three months???). A piece of 3/4" water pipe is the right OD, and
> I think it's standard fine threads for that size.


I welded up exactly what you describe, but tried using the
pipe threads.  Big mistake. Pulled a thread tightening the pipe
into the steering wheel.

I guesstimated (with a thread guage, but it doesn't really fit in
the tight space) 20 tpi, not 14tpi which would be 1" UNF thread.

3/4" pipe (NPT) is 14 tpi, and I know that doesn't fit, you
musta used 20, 24, 18, whatever it is...

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