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I got a Craftsman now. The HF one actually looks like it would work really well, but this Craftsman is a steering wheel puller, not a universal puller like the HF harmonic balancer puller. This one is thick, straight and meant only for pulling steering wheels, so it's the right tool. Only problem is that I have to machine it to get it to work. I'm going to take only the bare minimum of steel off for the bolts to go in straight, with an endmill that is very close to the size of the M8 bolts. This way the bolts will also have extra support to keep them straight. I don't think I can get a better setup than that. I'll upload some photos tomorrow of the parts as I get things accomplished. Again, thanks for the moral support. I don't want to admit it, but I kinda needed it!
Did the Craftsman have enough clearance for your puller bolt holes out of the box? This is my second tool that wouldn't fit the wheel properly. I took a square with me to Sears to double check the center bolt on the puller in case there were many options. I did check it with the square before purchasing, but it turned out that it was the only one they had in stock. I didn't think to take a scale to check the clearance of the puller bolts because I knew I could just machine it if necessary. I was still surprised that two pullers purchased didn't work out of the box for me. Maybe some time between '66 and '69, they changed the distance between the holes?
Oh, as for the air chisel, I don't have one, but my neighbor might. Tomorrow would be ideal to borrow it since he won't be needing it for work. Wouldn't a half inch impact wrench on the center bolt be equally effective in that scenario? I've got that here and I can try that. Hell, maybe I'll need both. Hoping that fixing the threads and trying it again after the kroil has been working will be enough to make it come off without anything crazy, but I'll try anything at this point.
Yes, that's totally posible, and precisely what I thought happened, especially after the original nut was really tough to get off the last couple threads. So I took an OD caliper to the lowest section of the threads, and it's over 12mm, not much, but over. Fasteners can't be anything over the nominal size, so the fact that it's over, it can't be 12mm. I can't imagine anyone whacked it hard enough to get the lower part to get larger. I initially ran a a 12x1.5 chaser through the original nut before i bouggt the wheel nut, and it was really sloppy. I assumed it was just damaged from PO.