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[beemerdevil]

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 -  

[gwa]

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  

Bruce

[beemerdevil]

cool......but is the steering wheel on a spline - ta

[unlucky alf]

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.

[beemerdevil]

cheers tim  

[Andy B]

...... 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

[unlucky alf]

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

[Andy B]

..... 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.  
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.

[Omegatoy]

you just need a gorlla like pull on the hweel after undoing the nut!!!
mine came off reasonably easily doing it this way!!!1

[unlucky alf]

im only going on what vx told me to do honestly andy!, are these the same as senators where the outer part collapses?

[Andy B]

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.  

[unlucky alf]

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 , anyhow perhaps omegablacks will come off with a tug & thatll settle it

[beemerdevil]

thanks for your comments.............but all i wanted to know was if the steering wheel is on a spline - lol  

[markey mark]

yes black its splined  

[beemerdevil]

thanks markey  


pphheeeww......thats it washed,   now just gonna get some shine on it later.  8-)