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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: beemerdevil on 17 October 2008, 18:52:36
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2001, facelift v6 2.6................................can anyone tell me please, is the steering wheel on a spline or hexagonal (onto steering column) and is the wheel easy to remove?? - thanks in advance - :y :y
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Der... Serek (a member) changed mine last weekend cos the stitching had gone and I managed to get another off the forum. There was a bit of sweat and a thump to move it other than that OK. PM serek he'll tell ya. I'm in P'Boro and he's in Huntingdon.
Good luck :y
Bruce
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cool......but is the steering wheel on a spline ??? - ta
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believe its on a spline, the best way to get it off & the easiest is to remove airbag [disconnect battery first & leave for a while], undo nut almost to the top then with a punch & hammer hit the top of the shaft downwards fairly hard & the wheel should just pop up, take nut off completely & remove wheel.
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cheers tim :y :y :y
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...... undo nut almost to the top then with a punch & hammer hit the top of the shaft downwards fairly hard & the wheel should just pop up, take nut off completely & remove wheel.
DON'T HIT THE SHAFT! You'll bugger up the collapable bit of the column. Vauxhall steering wheels usually need a specific puller like .... clicky (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LASER-GM-STEERING-WHEEL-PULLER-VAUXHALL-OPEL-low-P-P_W0QQitemZ310090719837QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item310090719837&_trkparms=72%3A1350%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)
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andy b, this is how vx told me to do it ages ago, i know its not a recommendation coming from vx but has always been fine for me, you would have to hit it with a sledge hammer for it to colapse the column, but i will agree a puller would be better if its available :y
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..... you would have to hit it with a sledge hammer for it to colapse the column ......
Would you? :-/ I haven't looked specifically at mine, but some are only nylon 'pegs', easily sheared with something a bit smaller than a sledge hammer. :y
I bent the wheel slightly on my Manta B trying to remove it. It came off a piece of cake with the puller i then made.
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you just need a gorlla like pull on the hweel after undoing the nut!!!
mine came off reasonably easily doing it this way!!!1 :y
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im only going on what vx told me to do honestly andy!, are these the same as senators where the outer part collapses?
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im only going on what vx told me to do honestly andy!, are these the same as senators where the outer part collapses?
Can't remember what either look like ::), it's been a while since i've had my head under the dash. ;D ;D ;D
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i know andy, when they told me it frightened me, but they said that as long as you are only hitting the inner section there shouldnt be a problem, & ive done this on the old royales [known for column movement due to 3 torx bolts in column working loose!] & untold other vx`s with the same seup & its been fine, perhaps ive been lucky for once :D, anyhow perhaps omegablacks will come off with a tug & thatll settle it :y
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thanks for your comments.............but all i wanted to know was if the steering wheel is on a spline ??????- lol ;D ;D :y
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yes black its splined :y
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thanks markey :y :y :y :y
pphheeeww......thats it washed, :'( :'( now just gonna get some shine on it later. 8-):D
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thanks markey :y :y :y :y
pphheeeww......thats it washed, :'( :'( now just gonna get some shine on it later. 8-):D
polished as well now :y :y