Will I destroy my steering wheel?

I'm trying to replace a defective turn signal box on my 996. Looked at the you tube video - piece of cake, even for someone who, although handy with tools, is not a mechanic. Step 1 blithely states "remove 2 nuts on either side of wheel hub using a Torx 30 bit. I have been trying to get these off for 2 days. I finally got one off accompanied by a loud "snapping" sound, but it took repeated tries with a lot of leverage on a socket wrench to get there (I'm 250 lbs and pretty strong). I thought i had snapped the bolt, but it came out OK. The other one is till giving me fits. Does anyone know if these bolts have threadlok on them? Could that have been the loud snap I heard when the first one broke free? I have tried heating the Torx 30 to red hot and inserting into the bolt, hoping to break something free, but so far still REALLY tight! Please - does anyone out there with experience have any idea how to break these free. Do you think I can snap the bolt if I keep trying? Bolt is M6x10.5. Thanks

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Those are tight but they should not have thread locker on them. Did you turn the steering wheel so the bolts are at 12/6 o'clock positions to get the best access? Of course it's entirely possible someone worked on it before and put thread locker on them. Also hard to get leverage with the steering wheel free to turn. You can try using a club steering wheel lock or a piece of wood to lock the wheel?

remember to d/c the battery

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Good point, and wait at least 15 minutes.

I had same issue with mine sorting out a horn malfunction. I ended up with a torx screw driver with mole grips (Vise grips if you are from USA) for extra leverage.

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Are you talking about the two bolts on the back of the steering wheel, the ones that hold the air bag in place? If that's the case, your problem could definitely be thread lock. As others have said, there isn't any from the factory, but some genius may have put it there to keep his air bag from being removed. Sounds like he may have succeeded ;-) Did the bolt that came out look like it had thread lock on it? If not, did it look like it was corroded? If there's corrosion, all the heat in the world may not help ... you might want to try a penetrating oil like PB Blaster (insert WD-40 joke here ;-). I've removed my steering wheel on a few occasions, once to replace it and a couple times to mess with the combo switch. To remove the air bag I usually use a 1/4" drive Torx bit socket on a 3" extension and a 1/4" ratchet. The bolts take relatively little force to loosen. FWIW, I'm almost certain that the bolts on my car are T27, not T30. I'm sure you could snap the bolts with adequate force. In answer to your original question, though, I don't think you'd wreck your steering wheel -- the bolts in question go into the air bag retaining frame, not the steering wheel itself. So you might trash the retaining frame, but the wheel itself should be OK. If you break the bolt you could probably remove the retaining frame from the wheel and drill out the rest of the bolt. It would be a PITA, but doable. Assuming you get the air bag off, a cordless impact gun makes removing the steering wheel a lot easier. You'll need the correct size socket for the big nut that holds the steering wheel in place. I think it's 24mm, but don't trust me on that.

Thanks all for the responses. Decided to let it alone for a day or two, and when I tried again I was able to free it -by breaking the bolt halfway into the thread. There is indeed blue loktite on these bolts, which accounts for how difficult it can be to remove them. Heat is the only way to "release" loktite and so really the only way to apply heat is to heat the torx tool until red hot and stick it in the bolt head and hold it for a while.