^I'd have to humbly disagree with you. If it's indeed over-torqued, it's going to be incredibly difficult to break that nut loose by offsetting the torque with your hands clocking the wheel the opposite way. And if Red Loctite is involved, you might as well forget it. I had a nightmare of a time getting studs off my E46's hubs that were installed with Red Loctite - they required tons of torching and we actually had to scrap one hub and replace it entirely.

Of course, that's assuming that the tech. used Red Loctite and used far too much of it.

I still submit that OP's most realistic way of trying would be first to use a breaker while resting the torque on the column lock or take an impact to it.

I guess OP will let us know how it goes...

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