Steering wheel nut striped
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Steering wheel nut striped
Well I was looking for a short in my light switch today and wanted to remove the steering wheel. well wouldn't you know the PO had striped the damn thing so that there is only two lines of thread left on the shaft. The nut is shot. So does anyone know what size it was so that I might be able to rethread it?I was going to file it smooth and then rethread. I now know why it felt loose. The other thing I was thinking about doing was to force a new nut on and weld it inplace, But only as a last resort. Oh yea this is on a 86 sr5 truck. once again I feel like I am
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Damn dude, it hasn't even been 2 hours, lol. I've had the same thing happen on an old Monte Carlo, but the junk yard is closer to me than any parts or hardware shop, and I needed some other interior parts too, so I just pulled one out of a junker. Haven't messes with my Toy wheel yet though...
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Don't take a file to it ! You are going to have to drop down in size since so much metal is gone. It may even need to be SAE threads, instead of Metric.I'm going to circle auto parts here in Petersburg in the morning I will look and see if there are any trucks your vintage you could take a shaft out of. Will PM ya if I see one. Someone told me there is an old yard down your way. Do you know of it?
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Don't take a file to it ! You are going to have to drop down in size since so much metal is gone. It may even need to be SAE threads, instead of Metric.I'm going to circle auto parts here in Petersburg in the morning I will look and see if there are any trucks your vintage you could take a shaft out of. Will PM ya if I see one. Someone told me there is an old yard down your way. Do you know of it?
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Damn dude, it hasn't even been 2 hours, lol. I've had the same thing happen on an old Monte Carlo, but the junk yard is closer to me than any parts or hardware shop, and I needed some other interior parts too, so I just pulled one out of a junker. Haven't messes with my Toy wheel yet though...
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Well I got it fixed today. First I tried a 1/2 die but it was of the same size as the old one. Next I filed it down a bit and threaded it with a 7/16 coarse. This worked well with a lock washer. Thanks all for the help.
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