I found a low miles Aero sport in West Palm yard and I want to get the clock spring.

I am reading the 4 bolts on the back side of our steering wheel are 10mm. I have tried 10mm socket and nothing grasps back there on my '95.

Is it a deep socket or do I need a different size or tool? ( was there only 1 type of wheel or can I have different bolts? ) It is impossible to fully see behind the wheel but what I can see is best described as not a bolt but a long screw that maybe has the 10mm bolt screwed on to it....

Then if I do get past this the center wheel lug is a 5/8th socket. Correct?

Any other suggestions on what to bring with me to the u pull it are appreciated alot...

Thanks, Austin

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This is the best picture I can get of whatever type of screw / bolt / etc..this may be that holds my airbag box to the steering wheel

It does not look like anything I ever saw. Have tried to use ratchets, screwdrivers. Can anyone explain this and how to remove these things?

Thanks! AA





Back of airbag bolt on 95 Aerostar steering wheel

 

I can't remember having much trouble removing the screws or bolts on the back of the steering wheel, so the only thing I can imagine is that the screw or bolt head has been stripped.

if I remember correctly, I used a socket with a 3" extension and a 3/8" ratchet. In the socket I might have inserted a Screwdriver Bit. The video above does not say the size of "deep socket" needed, so I am guessing it is a bolt headm most likely a 8mm, or 9mm, or 10mm. Can't be anything else.

unfortunately I am not near my old steering wheel, I am in another state for the winter.

 

All 4 of them are the same. I can't imagine all being stripped to look the same as this one. If you are stripping one bolt maybe you try a 2nd one and ruin it, but not all 4. There is no place to insert a screwdriver or even a hint of a place, and there does not even seem to be a bolt here.

 

try a deep (long) 8mm socket, 1/4" extension, and 1/4" ratchet.

if you can't grab the bolt head, try a 9mm, or a 10mm. It has to be one of those.

I do remember having to move the socket to find the correct "angle" in which the socket grabbed the bolt head.

 

Please look at this picture again. There is no bolt. A threaded screw of some sort and a round circular thing at the base. What good would a ratchet do ?

 

I just checked my service manual, it says to "remove the 4 retaining NUTS".

so there are nuts at the bottom of the stud showing in your picture, that's why you need a deep socket, to reach the nuts. Try a 10mm or 3/8" long socket.

it might be that what is showing in your picture, is the stud without the nut, could be that someone already removed the nut and didn't put it back. Try the other 3 bolts.

 

No disrespect what so ever but if there are no nuts how does anything reach to nuts that are not there?

 

in this video of another Ford truck but same steering wheel you can clearly see the the nuts are very near the surface of the holes, so it looks like the nuts were already removed from your wheel. Try pulling on the airbag/horn pad to see if it is loose. Make sure you disconnect the battery and the yellow sleeved wiring connector located under the steering column.

 

That's clearly a nut. BocaAero95 is looking at the top of the nut, which appears circular, but you can see the flats on the left.

Looks to be 10mm to me. Deep socket required.

[later]

Had to remove my steering wheel yesterday. Yup, remove the airbag using 1/4" drive 10mm DEEP socket to remove the four nuts: