Took about two hours to get the steering wheel off!
After applying penetrating fluid at regular intervals, the nut eventually backed off with some encouragement from a metre long power bar.
Regular tricks to loosen the wheel were doing nothing, so we attached a slide hammer with 4kg weight. Nothing.... (didn't get pics of this)
Next up we made up a puller
All that happened was the angle started bending.....
So on Jacques' advice we added more heat, this time in the form of 1.5 litres of boiling water
So we missed our tea break, but did get the wheel off!
Just another illustration of the joys of doing this kind of work for a living. Always fun explaining to a customer why there is a R600 bill for an item when
"but all you had to do was loosen one nut and take it off!!!"
Justin also got the front beam out (thankfully this came out fairly painlessly) and various other items removed.
We need to get our air lines completed and the big compressor and dryer hooked up then we can start blasting the chassis legs.
