Here We Go Again Ladies and Gentlemen; All this talk about penetrating oil and tapping the motor shaft out of the plastic squirrel cage is out. Not only you have the great chance of breaking the wheel,but at the same time damaging the alignment of the bearings in the motor(if your trying to save it). In Heating and Cooling we service techs use a blower wheel puller. It works great . Just on drop of oil on the end of shaft install puller and shaft recesses into hub,take screw with the right o.d. and installit in hub hole and continue. WHOLLA ! tloip XUSAF