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- Removing the steering
wheel
(by Kyle)
How a steering wheel is removed from a TR7/8 will vary slightly depending on the steering wheel involved but the following instructions apply to original TR7 wheels. N.B. It should be noted that genuine TR7 wheels dish outwards towards the driver meaning that after market wheels that are virtually flat will not allow your knuckles to clear the wiper/light stalks without some form of modification to the stalks. The wheel being closer to the column will also slightly change your driving position. Choose your replacement wheel carefully.
Steering wheel with cover removed
First
job before removal is to make sure the front wheels are pointing exactly
forward. Try to drive the car for about ten feet in a straight line to
make sure this is the case. Prise out the central “bung” (how
varies from wheel to wheel). You should now be faced by a large nut (unless
you have an assistant, anyone willing to help do work to a TR7 must be
a nut so that makes two of them then). A 27mm socket is best suited to
the removal of this. Clamp the wheel between your legs (oh-er!) using
your knees or have someone else hold it for you (yet again, oh-er!) while
you take your nut off (what? No oh-er?) in an anti-clockwise turn. Now
remove the washer. The wheel is now kept in place by splines. The best
method of removing the wheel from the splines without damaging them is
to use a large rubber hammer (or cloth covered heavy hammer) to knock
forwards from the back of the three spokes, no more than a couple of taps
at a time per spoke, going around all the spokes in a circle one after
another, until the wheel comes off.
Loosen the centre nut
Use hammer to tap wheel off spline
Close up of prongs & matching recesses
