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The scooter Republic engine mount fitting/removal tool, is it any good ? Or any other recommendations.

Thanks for any help.

I bought a cheap kit of tools from eBay. The clutch tools were an absolute joke but they did at least look a bit like clutch holding tools!

Anyway, the engine mount removal tool needed a slight modification as the cut-out for the strengthening webs on the engine was too small; 2 minutes with a hacksaw sorted it out.

It works perfectly but as I said I had to fettle it first.

I also bought one off eBay a while back that had obviously been designed against an Italian casing. There was a prong to go between the ribs on the engine lug, fine on the KS side on an Indian casing but no use on the five ribbed flywheel side.

With a bit of fettling it also works fine.

I've had a couple of engine mount tools.

typically knackered threads on the long bolt and nut.

Got some extra long 1 1/2" nuts from local bolt and nut shop at about £1 each

Never had a problem since, and much easier to tighten up

What ever tool you use,make sure you use a heat gun to warm the casing,not a blow torch.It works,believe me.

dave411 wrote:What ever tool you use,make sure you use a heat gun to warm the casing,not a blow torch.It works,believe me.

What he said. My black and decker heat gun has changed my life.

dave411 wrote:What ever tool you use,make sure you use a heat gun to warm the casing,not a blow torch.It works,believe me.

Yes they do but there's nothing wrong with using a blow torch either - just don't crazy with it.

Thats what i thought,but the blow torch heats to agressivly,and the gun doesnt.I tried the blow torch with no luck.The hot air gun was the answer.

Either works, but a heat gun is easier as it's cooler so heats the job more slowly thereby allowing the temperature to build slowly and more uniformly.

That way you get more energy into the block rather than just a very high temperature surface; which is nice.