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Hi,
Probably a very simple question.
I need to remove the wooden steering wheel on my 1930, to get it refurbished. The horn button is rubber and gently prising up one side I think it is attached to whatever is underneath. Is this just the rubber sticking or is there some sort of connection on the underside?
Presumably once I get it off the wheel itself is just held with a nut.
Any advice is welcome

There should be a metal cap over a rubber horn button. There is an "s" wire going thru the rubber (it will have 2 legs on the wire) which sits in a horn retainer cup. Time and heat probably have it stuck. Pull or pry off the horn cap, lift out the "s" wire and pry out the rubber button. The retainer cup should be visable (this is the chrome circle around the button). I don't know about 1930 but you may have a nut inside the retainer cup that holds it to the steering shaft (as well as the steering wheel). Don't know if your steering is tapered or splined. Hope this helps.

Actually, the metal horn cap, rubber button and the "S" wire are all one piece, which makes up the complete horn button assembly. Just pull up on the metal horn button and the complete horn button assembly will come out of the steering wheel. Under that is a hex nut that holds the steering wheel to the steering shaft. Remove the hex nut. You then will probably have to use a steering wheel puller to remove the steering wheel from the shaft.

The wood rim of the steering wheel can be removed separately from the steering wheel spider buy removing the four screws that hold the wood rim to the steering wheel spider.

As I suspected it is not as simple as I thought. I do not have any sort of metal cover, just the rubber one, which has an S shape mounded into it. This,I think part no 60-344(p.270) in the FS catalogue.
Does this S have electrical wires that have to be disconnected?

What the Junkyard Dog says, plus.....

After removing the nut from the steering shaft, the best way to remove the steering wheel hub from the shaft is to drill out and tap the two holes in the hub through which the "s-wire" (which you previously removed) passes. Then you can screw two high-strength allen-head screws through a flat bar "strongback" with two holes in it to align with the two holes the hub. Then you simply tighten up the two screws until the hub pops off the steering shaft.

Hope that helps.

All the Best, Chip

There are no electrical wires on the ends of the "S" wire. The "S" wire touches a brass ring on the mast jacket bushing inside of the steerng column and when this is done the circuit is completed and the horn works. To remove, just grab onto the rubber horn button and pull. For more information, consult your 1930 Chevrolet Repair Manual.

By the way, the finish on the wood rim of the 1930 steering wheel was black, not natural.