F-12 steering

Just bought an f-12, 1936 model. First Farmall and am excited about the restoration. My first problem is the steering, it is froze. How do I get the gear off the top of the steering mechanism? Then get the shaft out of the housing? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks - M>Priar

I used a gear puller. I used heat. I used ice. I used a BFH. I used a LOT of language that I did not learn in Sunday School. I used multiple repetitions of all of the above.

It took over a week to get it off. As I headed out for work in the morning, I'd give it a couple of whacks with a ballpeen hammer, and take as much of a turn as I could get on the gear puller. When I got home in the evening, I'd do it again.

One morning, as I was leaving for work, I gave it my usual whack, and that sucker popped off, the puller went all the way up and hit the roof of the garage, and the gear went bouncing all over the place.

To this day, I can't figure out why my usual luck didn't hold, and one or both didn't go through the windshield of my truck...