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MG TD TF 1500 - steering wheel removal

I am going to replace the steering wheel on my 1953 TD. I'm looking for how to comments, dos and don'ts from any of you that have pulled the wheel. Is it as simple as removing the nut and using a puller to get the wheel off. Thanks.
Bob Cole, Arizona
re cole

I may have been lucky, but I just removed the nut, and the steering wheel came right off. It looked like it had been there for many years before I removed it.

It may be difficult to use a puller, because of the shape of the hub. If it's stuck, you should be able to extract the sliding hub along with the steeriing wheel by removing the key, and then take the whole assembly to someone with a hydralic press to extract it.
Mark Barrington

And then there is the old tried and true method learned 40 years ago. Sit in the drivers seat and brace your knees under the wheel forcing it toward your chest. With the nut backed off but still engged with all trheads, crack the nut with a large hammer. The wheel will pop up against the back of the nut.

Safety Fast!

Jimbo6
1953 TD
J. M. Haskins

With luck you won't have my experience. My speculation is that a previous owner put the steering wheel key in backwards (it has a slight taper), and as a result my wheel would not seperate from the adjusting shaft. After weeks of penetrating oil and careful, and then careless, pounding (which caused the threaded end of the shaft to deform), the wheel would still not surrender. I wound up putting a 1/2" threaded rod through the shaft, with a washer and nut on each end, torqued the nuts, then heated up the hub with a propane torch. Took about 10 seconds and the wheel popped off the shaft. Wish I had done this first before I ruined the end of the shaft. Hope you removal is a lot easier.

Terry
Terry Jacobs

I have a large three prong puller that the prongs fit between the spokes on the standard wheel and grab the hub securely and I inserted a large bolt into the steering shaft and my puller was actually piercing a dent into the head of the bolt as I applied turning pressure to the puller but the wheel has yet to 'pop' free. Last time I removed a steering wheel from a TD was about 1965 so this many years later I must be missing somthing from my memory as to what I should be doing otherwise. Need some more advice than what has been previouslt listed. Greg & Grimm in MI
G.J. Cenzer

Going back to the beginning, before I attempt to undue the steering wheel nut, is it a RH thread or LH.
Henry

It's a standard, RH, thread. Just back it off a couple of flats and whack it with a hammer while pulling outward on the wheel. It'll probably come right off after removing the nut.
Bud Krueger

Hi, I think you will find it far easier if the splined adjusting shaft is removed complete with the steering wheel. The steering wheel is then supported from behind with a short piece of pipe and the shaft is pressed or drifted out. I just used this method a couple of hours ago when I could not easily remove the wheel with the assembly in the TF.
Hugh Pite
Hugh Pite

This thread was discussed between 14/04/2004 and 30/04/2004

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