Posted by DAvid on Monday, July 15, 2002 at 2:06AM :
In Reply to: pulling the steering wheel-help! posted by Bluegrass Gal on Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 10:30PM :
1.) unscrew the center nut completely and remove it
2.) plant both feet on the floor
3.) stand and pull as hard as you can with both arms while wiggling the wheel
4.) When you regain consciousness and stop the blood coming from your nose from the wheel hitting you when it came loose, go inside and tape the cut on TOP of your nose and take two asprin for the headache...
5.) Clean up the blood in the interior, change clothes
6.) Make a note to yourself to NOT do it that way again
7.) Try and explain to he wife/girlfriend that you have NOT been fighting with anybody. You simply won a battle with a steering wheel and that is why your eyes are both black and your nose is swollen and taped
Fortunately, I learned this from someone ELSE'S mistake, not my own. I was lucky in that, when I removed the center nut amd foolishly tried the same trick, the wheel didn't come lose. Now I leave it on a few turns and use a flat plate with two screws into the holes as a puller