Help!! Wheel hub

I took apart my interior to paint it all up make it a little more presentable and now i cant get the steering wheel hub back around the ignition area. It looks like there is a little O Ring stoping me from proping the casing back into the steering wheel. Anyone have a solution for this iv already damaged the piece trying to get it back in. Got a new one but do not want the same problem.???

sounds like you sniffed to much of the paint.

How so. The steering week bottom casing will not fit period. the steering wheel bottom sits a bit back.

That was a very insightful post:cookie:

OP, its been some time since I ve look at or had to deal with a stearing wheel off of the colum but if i remember correctly that ring your refering to goes on a certain way. however I could be wrong about that

I would just take a second look at it, take your time and try it again.

Yes i found the problem the way the wheel was sitting wouldnt allow it to go in the slot. You need to have the steering wheel exactly straight up and down

[QUOTE=BLKACK1;2052120]That was a very insightful post:cookie:

OP, its been some time since I ve look at or had to deal with a stearing wheel off of the colum but if i remember correctly that ring your refering to goes on a certain way. however I could be wrong about that

I would just take a second look at it, take your time and try it again.[/QUOTE]

Yeah yours was MUCH more helpful :bored: my 11 year old son could have said as much.
Trixx91- gald you got your problem fixed. Sometimes it just a second or third look and you can figure things out.