The steering wheel nut is seriously over torqued, and/or has a hefty dose of threadlocker on there. This is a normal stock 4 spoke non airbag wheel.
Trying to loosen the nut using a breaker bar, with the wheel locked, it feels like I am going to break the wheel lock if not the steering column.
Is this likely? Or should I just go for it? I know sometimes working on stuff I have to give more force than "feels" safe to me, but given that it's the steering column, I really dont want to break anything
I tried a search for 'steering wheel' (excluding the for sale forums), and found a fair number of people whose wheels were stuck on -- after they got the nut undone.
If I borrow a power wrench or impact wrench, will that get it off without damaging things?
I already tried spraying PB blaster in there, thinking that might help, but no change.
This is driving me nuts because I really want to fix my odometer and temp gauge
Trying to loosen the nut using a breaker bar, with the wheel locked, it feels like I am going to break the wheel lock if not the steering column.
Is this likely? Or should I just go for it? I know sometimes working on stuff I have to give more force than "feels" safe to me, but given that it's the steering column, I really dont want to break anything
I tried a search for 'steering wheel' (excluding the for sale forums), and found a fair number of people whose wheels were stuck on -- after they got the nut undone.
If I borrow a power wrench or impact wrench, will that get it off without damaging things?
I already tried spraying PB blaster in there, thinking that might help, but no change.
This is driving me nuts because I really want to fix my odometer and temp gauge
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