clutch removal help

[mm800]

A friend of mine has an 04 600 and his belt shredded on him. A bunch of the pieces of the belt are wrapped around the shaft behind the drive clutch. I dont know how to remove the clutch to get all the pieces out.

[mudsportsman05]

You need to have a clutch puller, to remove the primary. It will just pop off if you use one.+

[mm800]

Thanks, guess I was using the wrong type of puller.

[SCRAMMYTODD]

You don't say where you are, but if it gets below feezing take a bolt that fits in the clutch housing, tip the bike on it's side and fill the clutch housing with water, thread the bolt in and push the bike outside. Sit in front of a fire with a frosty barley pop and in an hour the water will freeze, expand and push the clutch right off. It's by far the cheapest puller on the market.

[cd]

lol never thought of that one. I use a bolt that fits in the clutch with about a 3" piece of rod.

[Rebel64]

That sure is a creative way...never heard of that!

But as Mudsportsman said, invest in a puller...they are something like 20-30 bucks and well worth it. (IMO)

[Turk]

But as Mudsportsman said, invest in a puller...they are something like 20-30 bucks and well worth it. (IMO)


Thats another tool I have to add to the list of "Important must have tools".

[Rebel64]

And I'll follow that up with a clutch alignment tool. Might as well do it all right.

[Turk]

Yep cant argue with that.

[mm800]

Finally got it off. Thanks for the help.

[Rebel64]

Good deal, lots of cords stuck behind the shaft?

[OnlyPolaris]

hey just though of this. couldn't you take the stock middle bolt out of the primary and put a 3" piece of pipe of the end like cd does then use that for a clutch puller. it would screw right in there.

[mm800]

And then some

["Bankrupt"]

considering the + and - of doing it so many different ways...

the 35.00 i spent on the correct primary puller is a drop in the bucket compared to what it would cost to replace the crank if you screw it up because you tried to save 35.00


besides, how long will it take to figure something out, make it and hope it works?

my dad use to get on me when i was younger because he would ask me to go do something in the yard (such as move something from point a to point b)

i would take 2 hours and build some sort of rig/contraption/sling/bucket to shave 5 mins off a 15 min job.....

[BIG_T]

hey just though of this. couldn't you take the stock middle bolt out of the primary and put a 3" piece of pipe of the end like cd does then use that for a clutch puller. it would screw right in there.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.

Best solution: buy a clutch puller. It's well worth it.

[cd]

well using the stock bolt isn't going to work, but I will say my bolt and rod has probably pulled a hundred clutches trouble free. but the puller is probably the easier way to go instead of making something.