I've tried my 8" gear puller, a rubber mallet and brute force, I can't get my dang steering wheel off.

The 8" puller is the only one of my 4 that can fit around the wheel, but the outer ring just bends and the wheel refuses to budge. none of my other three pullers can get a hold of the wheel - either at the outer ring or around the hub. The platic wheel cowl prevents the pullers from getting latched onto the inner hub. How do you get this off? I need to rehab my turn signal stalk and short of destorying the cowl, I can't figure out how to get the pullers to grab onto anything. Ideas?
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You mean Volvo makes cars that are *NOT* Wagons?!?

Don't buy/use a puller. Take off the nut and get out your rat tail file.
At two opposite corners, file a round-bottomed groove 5/16" diameter and
deep enough so you can screw a 5/16" bolt through the groove on each side
into the threaded holes in the steering wheel hub. (That's what they're for.)
Use short bolts with flat washers against the nut (screwed flush with
the end of the shaft) and tighten them evenly till it comes off.

Or you could use C4.
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George Downs Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!

I can't quite visualize what you're suggesting. I know about the two bolt holes and I have a couple of rat-tail files. I don't quite follow you on the filing 5/16 grooves at the corners. The corners of what?

Seems like I should put a couple of bolts into those two holes and use them as the leverage points for the puller. Humm...

I am definitly not buying another tool just for this purpose. I just got a nice of three-arm pullers to discover that only the smallest one can fit into the little holes in the timing gear.


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You mean Volvo makes cars that are *NOT* Wagons?!?

Clamp the nut in your vise the thin way, with one corner of the hex sticking
up. File right into that corner making a round-bottomed groove 5/16"+ wide and
deep enough that when you stick a bolt through the groove it will screw into
one of the tapped holes in your steering wheel. Do the same on the opposite
corner of the nut. When you get it to where the bolts will JUST fit through
the grooves and screw into both holes, you're done filing. Bolts must be the
right length so that you have enough thread engagement not to strip the threads
but not bottoming out. Use flat washers between the bolt heads and the big
nut, and put the nut just to where the end of the steering column is flush with
the surface of the nut. Then when you tighten the bolts up it will pull the
wheel against the column.
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George Downs Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!

I think I know what your are telling me to do. I'll give it a try later today.

btw: "Temba, His Arms Wide" was a phrase from a star trek episode. It just means tell me more. "temba at rest" just means "thanks" you've given me enough.
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You mean Volvo makes cars that are *NOT* Wagons?!?

Complementing George´s post:

From the "green" service manuals:


the instructions come with a image:


(the SVO2325 tool are very similar to the puller posted by Curtis):

(draft from side view, assembled)
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Joaquin / Rojo 121 / Lima, Peru

File grooves in the nut so the bolts can clear the edge of the nut. Put the nut back on loosely, the screw in the bolts, using a flat washer as a interface between the head of the bolt and the surface of the big nut. As you screw in it will pull the wheel until the wheel contacts the nut. By that time it should be loose.

Tim

'72 ES, '90 240

The only way that I was able to pull off the steering wheel on my '67 122S was with a "Lisle Steering Wheel Puller #45000" I bought from the Eastwood Company.
This item should also be available from auto parts stores. Fred

Have you tried a puller like this? It screws into the hub.

They're fairly cheap at my local autoparts chain store.

curtis m. white