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To remove the steering wheel from the Ford tractor you should loosen the acorn nut till there are about 4 threads still holding it on. Soak the area of the spline for a few hours with a good penetrant. Hold one hammer of about four pounds or larger on one side of the steering wheel center hub and with another hammer of at least two pound strike the hub of the steering wheel as close to directly across from the back up hammer as possible. Move all the way around the hub whacking it with the smaller hammer. This is called swaging the metal. What you are doing is stretching the inside diameter of the hub to allow you to remove the wheel. Sometimes it is easier to do this with a second person or use all three of your hands if you can’t find help. :O) It may also be helpful to use a piece of steel shaft to reach outside the circle of the steering wheel so you can get a better whack at the hub with the smaller hammer. Get yourself up into the seat of the tractor and grasp the steering wheel with both hands and while pulling back with all your might rock the steering wheel back and forth to the left and right pretty forcefully. This process will usually get the wheel to come back to where the nut catches it. You should be able then to finish removing the nut and the wheel will come on off once it has moved a bit. Be sure not to try this unless the retainer nut is partially on the steering shaft or you may wake up on your back on the ground behind the tractor wondering how you got there.
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