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

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Subject:
re: Nash (Rambler) steering wheel puller
From:
Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
Date:
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:37:19 -0500

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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 used a 3-4" pipe 
nipple threaded correctly by a shop, welded a 5/16" nut on the inside of 
the opposite end (could have been 1/4"...), then used a carriage bolt 
for the pusher. I had to grind the edge of the carriage bolt head to fit 
inside the pipe. That way I had a nice large rounded surface to push on 
the steering shaft. I just locked two nuts together on the bolt to turn 
it with. I loaned the puller out once and it never came back.
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:16:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>

I think I've determined the dimensions to make a steering
wheel puller for the American, but it's another one of those
things that just mystifies me that no one else has come across,
and solved, this problem. (The other one is, no one besides
Frank admits to ever changing the (absolutely not available)
strut bushings on a 63/64 Classic/Ambo.)

No one's pulled off an early AMerican steering wheel?! There
is no tool available to do it, and no, a regular puller isn't
even in the right universe.

It's so old world...

Go under the nose of the car and cut the horn wire that runs
up the length of the steering column, through the box. It's
probably all frayed and shorting out on the steering linkage
anyways on random left turns. Mine did.

Take the "R" trim escutcheon out the steering wheel (likely,
it fell onto the floor back in '72; it's under the seat). Unclip
the brass thing. Pull out the center contact on it's long wire.

15/16" socket takes off the Special Nut. Do not lose the
Special Nut!

Peer inside the thing and you'll see that the Special Nut's
Special Shoulder runs inside a hole; the inner face of this hole
is tapped. I think it's 20 threads per inch; the hool diameter
is 1".

The steering wheel removal tool -- which I do not have -- is 1"
diameter, 8" long or so, and threads into the steering wheel. A
1/2" or so threaded rod runs down the center of the tool, and
presses on the end of the steering column shaft. Tightening
the center bolt extracts the wheel from the shaft.

So I gotta cut a 1-20 thread into steel, bore it, weld a 1/2"
nut on the far end of the thing, bolt, etc.


I will then rent you my tool for a Nominal Service Fee

-- 
Frank Swygert
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