Stupid steering wheel removal!!!
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some people get wheel that are factory looking but wrapped in leather or whatever and retain the airbag others get aftermarket without an airbag. you can get prettymuch any wheel but for the aftermarket wheels you have to get a hub kit for it to fit.
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12
so i tapped it and got it somewhat tight. Smacked it with a hammer a bit. got some lube all over in there. Im going to let it sit at least 24 hours. and check on it again. I hope that will help....
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13, '15, '16-'17-'18-'19
Well at least you have a tight steering wheel.
I remember about 25 years ago I had a 1976 Firebird for a college car, and the stering wheel once came off while I was driving it.
Good luck with your project.
I remember about 25 years ago I had a 1976 Firebird for a college car, and the stering wheel once came off while I was driving it.
Good luck with your project.
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steering wheel removal
I just went through this 2 weeks ago. I was putting a rewrapped wheel on my 02 c5. Thankfully I only had a $50.00 core charge. I purchased a cheap wheel puller correct type just cheap. I broke one of the legs. I returned it for another 2 more times. I finally went on e/b and purchased a used proto puller. This time it didn't break the puller it pulled through the wheel itself. I eventually used a dremel tool with a small cutting wheel and cut the wheel off. after getting down to the small splined hub, I split it and it slid off. I had tried different types of pullers before splitting the splined hub. I dressed the shaft splines with a jewlers file and everything was o.k. I installed the new wheel. What a pain in the a.. No rust or anything on the old wheel splines or shaft it looked like new. This design is only made for this type of puller and a good puller pulled through the wheel & ruined the wheel.
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You can't get or put something behind it. it seems I must have a faulty wheel. one side has given me nothing but troubles. the metal ripped out, the threads stripped out. but the side has had no issues holding. time to start cutting!
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Well, I see one issue that is responsible. The wheel was made to be lightweight. It may be magnesium, and quite possibly it is cast aluminum. Both of these materials will yield very weak thread strength compared to steel. It is impossible to achieve identical root strength given the same thickness of material. If it were steel to begin with I guarantee you never would have started this thread. Furthermore, steel puller into soft base metal=high odds of cross-threading, which will lead to false seating of the puller....explains why one side is good (properly installed) and one side is stripped out (improperly installed) 
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