Scooterotica

bristolmod wrote:.....thats the story! when I first read it some years back I nearly shat meself with laughter!!

Only happy to have brought a little merriment into your life.......the toe healed well enough and the cobblers were able to stitch a patch onto the boot but my sock was a total write off

Cheers fellas some good ideas there (particularly like the use of the clutch compressor).

Another idea was to weld a washer onto the flywheel nut, screw the nut back on then fit a large circlip in the damaged threads. When the nut is unscrewed it will catch on the circlip and "may" extract the flywheel........that's how my old Vespa used to do it .....

A brutal but effective way, if you don t mind sacrificing the magneto housing, cut two slots away along the lip so as to put two screwdrivers opposite and then you can lever the flywheel off........ I know, but if needs must at least it worked when one of the lads got stuck on the way home and .....yes ....he lost his flywheel puller.....and you will save wear on your boot and sock and not having to ask your neighbour if you can have your flywheel back.. ( bad enough having to get your football back when we were kids )

which rough tw*t cross threaded the thing in the first place? carnt blame me for this one

ducksta wrote:which rough tw*t cross threaded the thing in the first place? carnt blame me for this one

Don't think it was cross-threaded, just seems slack ? meant to be a relatively new fly-wheel but who knows ??

seemed fine till you drove past then it all went t*ts up

Clutch compressor method looked good to me, maybe use ratchet straps on either side to keep it in place.

I pulled the threads off a puller one time on a varitronic flywheel. After talking to a grown up (old time machinist) about it he recommended I use a little anti seize grease on the threads of the puller and tighten that sucker as far down as it will go before using. Also make sure the threads on the flywheel and puller are super clean from dirt. Never pulled another thread again.

mick1 wrote:

ducksta wrote:which rough tw*t cross threaded the thing in the first place? carnt blame me for this one

Don't think it was cross-threaded, just seems slack ? meant to be a relatively new fly-wheel but who knows ??

seemed fine till you drove past then it all went t*ts up

mmmmmmmmmmm another woodruff key tale me thinks

Whatever way you decide something will get damaged, the last one I had to remove when flywheel threads stripped, I drilled out the rivets took off the fan part of the flywheel and got the boss off with a 3 legged puller. on reflection I think welding the puller to the flywheel would have been easier

Sorted it by welding a large nut to the boss and sending a big bolt through. Ground nut off and just needs a new boss fitting.........still like the Clutch Compressor idea though....