How to change a steering worm gear?

[Mitch//pa]

Originally Posted by Licensed to kill

Yes. I think Mitch's way is the way to go also. However, if you don't have a bearing puller to take the old one off and you DO have a press that's tall enough, you could thread the bolt in as Mitch suggested and, resting the worm on your press table, push the steering shaft off the worm by pushing on the bolt.

Yes that should work also::: set the press on cinder blocks for more extension

[Terry, NJ]

Let's not think of this method as being benign. It basically alters an original part which I only do out of desperation and something should be done to prevent the threads from fraying the horn wire. But I was pretty desperate after three days of heating and pounding and getting no where. About that wire, I'd suggest apiece of plastic tubing over it to prevent fraying.
Terry