I have got a new steering wheel and a HICAS boss for my ZX TT...

 

I'm a bit of a novice and was wondering if there was one of those guides on how to remove the wheel and fit the boss and steering wheel...

 

is it an easy job?

 

Z Man

do a search mate 'removing steering wheel' .. loads of threads on this ..

 

HTH

 

Chris

there is a screw behind the bottom spoke of the steering wheel ( dashboard side ) undo this ...take off horn push pad , taking care to remove connector for horn switch / cruise if you have it .....undo the big nut on the top of the steering column holding the wheel on , the next bit is the hard bit .....geting the wheel off the shaft where it has lived for up to 16 years on some cars ....the best bet is to make a steering wheel puller basically a bloody big bolt in a threaded block with two more bolts , one through either end of the block ...cant remember the size now , but i think they are around 6 or 8 mm , these locate in two tapped holes in te steering wheel and as you tighten the big centre bolt against th esteering column the two small bolts pull the wheel off for you ...there may be easier ways im sure the forum will tell you if there is but that worked for me ..

 

good luck

 

steve

I used a puller, probably easiest way.

 

You gotta link to the wheel/boss you bought?? ta

Puller NOT needed, a common mistake is to try and pull the wheel off, when the centre nut is removed bang the front sides of the wheel rim with the palm of your hands ( as if trying to bang it on) do this in a few quiCk successions and hey presto one loose wheel that will lift off.

 

Jeff TT

cheers guys for the info...

Puller NOT needed, a common mistake is to try and pull the wheel off, when the centre nut is removed bang the front sides of the wheel rim with the palm of your hands ( as if trying to bang it on) do this in a few quiCk successions and hey presto one loose wheel that will lift off.

 

Jeff TT

 

I tried that, no go....even with the puller it was tight as fook and there was a loverly huge bang is it came off!!!!

Where did you buy the HICAS boss ? I have been after one for ages.

MJP auto in traders section .........the correct one not a make do !!

in got my boss from DTA in holland... they had one on there website

OK.... i have just taken off the cover for the wheel and removed the nut...

 

i cant get the wheel off... what is a puller and where can i use one? i have tried the banging in quick sucessions method and even used a big hammer...

 

any ideas?

when i removed mine as they all are TIGHT

i left the nut on by a few threads then give it some serious pulling, and with the nut left on you dont end up with a steering wheel in your top lip :headvswal

it WILL come off m8, just needs patience :smash:

i got a bit angry and bashed the wheel really hard with the hammer and RESULT!! it came off no problems...

 

here is a pic of the results... nice new steering wheel... :duffer:

 

just gotta get reid of the tweed and get me some white dials now...

 

:dance:

undo the wheel nut so the underside of it comes off the wheel about 4-5 mm then get a copper faced mallet and hit the nut with a square hard slam and "hey presto" the wheel has been SHOCKED off :smash: ,this is far more effective than a puller which can not really release the surface tension on the splines.

ps--- to avoid a repeat procedure in the future put a little copper slip on the splines before fitting new wheel :)

nice wheel that just 1 thing where do you put your cruise control switchoff the oe steering wheel cos i wanna do this.

i did not bother with cruise control... i never use it... there was a horn push that i got with the boss that had the cruise controls on it but i ditched it in favour of the nismo horn push...