knees are holding out just fine today.
I am taking a break from this drudgery and I am allowing Blaster to do the hard work for a while.
I checked very closely....the wheel is NOT welded onto the shaft...although that was seeming to be a strong possibility.... I was thinking it just may be welded, since it hasn't budged at all after days of pounding on it.
Over a beer, I'm thinking more of ending the torture by using an abrasive wheel and just cutting the shaft...right there under the wheel hub. I can pull the wheel up high and get the grinder on it. Access is pretty good there right now. I am figuring that I'll have to replace the steering box etc, anyway, and I just may be able to save the wheel and get the shaft spline out of the wheel with it on my huge anvil/vise.
Oh well.....another beer, and think more about it until tomorrow.
Jim
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