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Splitting cases?
Kawasakinut:
don ur right. what the heck was i thinking. but i'm not using the crank assembly i have now that mess is going to the trash can.
the cases where split about maybe half an inch so i just beat the clutch crank end to remove the clutch side case all the way. i'll use the press on the tranny side though. was kind of hard to resist the temptation after my motor has been sitting in the same state for 2 months so now i got everything apart. i was on the phone with the parts guy at the kawa dealer askin how much the case splitter was explaining what i had tried before. so the mechanic chimmed in the background like i'm a goof " hit it harder" so testing my manhood proved to work. if i would of screwed the cases i would of added them to my already expensive parts list. i didn't mean i was wacking the heck out of the motor parts, just solid coersive taps (bearings and crank are scrap metal anyways.
BDI:
I use a stearing wheel puller with longer bolts then come with the puller to pull the case off the mag side then I press the crank out of the clutch side in the old shop press. My buddy Cliff was telling me the other day how him and his buddy pressed his cases back together using some blocks of wood a floor jack and his pickup truck and he has been riding that bike for two years now.
Kawasakinut:
bdi how exactly do you us blocks of wood, floor jack and a pickup truck to press cases haha. sounds like a w.v. or s.c. trick
crazy a@# rednecks lol.
ma71t:
is your friends name macgyver.....are youre sure there wasnt a paperclip and a toilet paper roll involved too?
BDI:
To be perfectly honest these guys have been wrenching on bikes at a professional level for years and they like to smoke pot. They had weed and a motor to rebuild and they were not going to let a small thing like the lack of a shop press stop them. So with bong in hand and probably a paper clip to poke the stem with, these guys pressed the engine back together with a floor jack and a pickup truck. Even though they pulled it off and probably smoked some more pot and watched some mtv afterwards you should not try doing this because you probably can't do it.
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