How do I get the clutch cover off of my 850?

[nisom512]

I am trying to get my clutch cover off my 81 850 and it wont budge(yes I did disconnect the clutch cable) I got all the bolts off then tryed pulling the cover off and nothing so I hit it with a rubber mallet thinking this would break it free and then found a few tabs that I could try and pry it off with a hammer but with very little luck I got it a little ways a very little ways....then thought I was going to break it so I put it back.

on my 81 550 it just came right off. is there somthing I need to do different?

Thank you
Jake

[psyguy]

you were on the right way.
there are a couple of dovels holding the cover in place so make sure the cover stays paralel to the casing at all times while removing it.
the dovels may have corrode a little, thats all i can think of... or the gasket has burnt and "glued" the parts together

[nisom512]

you were on the right way.
there are a couple of dovels holding the cover in place so make sure the cover stays paralel to the casing at all times while removing it.
the dovels may have corrode a little, thats all i can think of... or the gasket has burnt and "glued" the parts together

awesome than you.

[Dogma]

I seem to remember I once used the lever arm on the clutch to push the cover away from the case. I locked onto it with a big pair of vise grips and used them to rotate the shaft in the same direction as if I had puller the clutch lever. The clutch release gear then oushed the cover away from the clutch.

[blowerbike]

I seem to remember I once used the lever arm on the clutch to push the cover away from the case. I locked onto it with a big pair of vise grips and used them to rotate the shaft in the same direction as if I had puller the clutch lever. The clutch release gear then oushed the cover away from the clutch.

plastic hammer and reverse the clutch arm and rock it back and forth after it starts to come off.
they stick to the dowels and sometimes the gasket likes to split in half and stick to the engine and cover at the same time.

[psyguy]

I seem to remember I once used the lever arm on the clutch to push the cover away from the case. I locked onto it with a big pair of vise grips and used them to rotate the shaft in the same direction as if I had puller the clutch lever. The clutch release gear then oushed the cover away from the clutch.

....cool tip!

[chef1366]

Vice grips??

[Colin Green]

Vice grips??

See below





Most commonly used tools are defined as follows


* DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.


* WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh sh!#..."


* SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.


* PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.


* BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.


* HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.


* VICE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.


* WELDING GLOVES: Heavy duty leather gloves used to prolong the conduction of intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.


* OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race. (And when you can't get that rounded bolt off with the Vice Grips just use the Blue Wrench!)


* TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.


* E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use.


* BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.


* TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.


* CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle.


* PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.


* STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws.


* PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.


* HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.


* HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.

[blowerbike]

* VICE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

[Dogma]

Vice grips??

'Cuz I'm too much of a wuss to do it barehanded, OK?

Edit: Hmmm. I just noticed the change in spelling, and I don't like what you're implying...

[chef1366]

'Cuz I'm too much of a wuss to do it barehanded, OK?

Edit: Hmmm. I just noticed the change in spelling, and I don't like what you're implying...

I was under the impression that I was spelling it correctly so I did not imply anything.

[Dogma]

I was under the impression that I was spelling it correctly so I did not imply anything.

Sorta funny, in a lewd, sophomoric kinda way.

vise

 /vaɪs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [vahys] Show IPA noun, verb, vised, vis⋅ing.

–noun 1. any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
–verb (used with object) 2. to hold, press, or squeeze with or as with a vise.
vice

1  /vaɪs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [vahys]

–noun 1. an immoral or evil habit or practice. 2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice. 3. sexual immorality, esp. prostitution. 4. a particular form of depravity. 5. a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style. 6. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice. 7. a bad habit, as in a horse. 8. (initial capital letter) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.

From dictionary.com

Never heard "vise" used as a verb, but it's on the Internet, so...

[chef1366]

I'm 41 going on twelve.

[nisom512]

I'm 41 going on twelve.

wow this group sure is definitive. hardy har har.