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How do I get this apart?

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Outta the car it'll be a BEAR to "un-do."
 
Have you pulled the outer column off the shaft? Only after switch removal or it'll damage the switch contacts.
 
After you have the outer cover pulled off, clamp the shaft in the vice, close to the wheel, and TIGHTEN the vice down. Then try to loosen the nut.
 
TIGHT NUT! I blasted it, going to let it sit a bit.
 
Got a LONG breaker-bar? Or a "leverage enhancer" like a piece of 1" diameter iron pipe two feet long??

RATS!
 
'65, Doc...steel dash car
 
My devious "plan" was: With the nut loosened to be just flush with the top of the column, the wheel resting on the vice jaws, jaws closed so's they're just touching the column... Now a BFH and a block of wood to protect the nut/column from metal-to-metal impact, WHACK the column with the block t'wixt it and the hammer blow... to force the splines downward thru the wheel. Without the nut on, it will remove a toe if it lets go, so don't be tempted 'k? The "skirt" of the wheel is likely to be a victim in this so *if* you can put a thin bit of wood, or some cardboard between the wheel hub and the vise it's resting on it would help a little.

I gotta prep for an evening "playin' out" with our dearest friends: their anniversary and we're aimed squarely at some lobsters who don't know they're "victims" just yet... heh.
 
That's actually to her advantage here. The column should have nearly fallen off after the "stuff" was removed.
 
I had this same problem with a 79 steering wheel. I used a gear puller to get the sucker off the column. Popped right off.
 
The "NUT" is the problem here. Was. Took the cowl off, the wiring and turn signal, could not bust that nut loose for anything. Blasted it with some can penetrol type stuff, let it sit. Got this brainstorm. Chuck has an airhose drill-looking thing that he uses. But I was askeered of the air compressor (big, new, honking thing) and didn't know where the tool was. Probably for the best. When he got home, he hooked it up and nut came right loose.

Then came the 'discussion.' He insisted that John (and everyone else) refinishes the column and steering wheel intact. I insisted I was taking it off. Wouldn't help me take it apart. So it sits. I can't paint the column and strip and refinish the banjo wheel while it's in one piece, will end up looking like a DPO job.

So. I'm taking my steering wheel AND column to the meeting Monday night and offering it up to someone to disassemble for me. Rather or not they tell me to work on it in one piece is irrelevant, I'm very persuasive.
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Maybe I'll try the vise grip deal tomorrow. I'm beat. Done for the day.

Just like the brakes and rotors, I'm determined to get this apart. The rotors didn't beat me and this won't either. One way or another.
 
Go go Gaget, woops Jaybird.
 
I wish I had HALF YOUR ENERGY these days! I finally got that disasteres mess called my income tax accounting to our CPA Wednsday.....It was starting to make me crazed again only this time I recognized what was happening.Will this crap never end?????????
 
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