Axle Bearings -- Clutch Problems

[initall]

Hello everyone

 

I have been looking at this site for a couple of weeks now, it is a nice site. So here it goes, i just picked up a 1990 Banshee on Friday. I bought her for $800.00, She fires up on the first kick everytime, shifts through all the gears and has good equal compression on each cylinder. But needs a little work, like axle bearings. Well before i replaced those i decided to just go around the neigborhood and ride a couple laps around the block. My brother came over to help with the bearing replacement. He decided to ride couple of laps also, so he was riding and broke something with the clutch, or clutch linkage parts. We brought it in and started to work on it. Here is the problem(s) I cant break loose the ring nuts on the axle bearings. I have tried heat, pb breaker, cheater bars with a pipe wrench on each nut, and countless swears at it, it still wont break loose. Does anyone have an ideas or a special way they know to get those stinking nuts off. And the clutch here is this problem. The rod that the cable hooks up to that goes in the case looks like it popped up and doesn't engage the clutch and thought on that would help.

 

This is my first quad, i have worked on car engines but this 2 stroke engine is new to me.

 

Thanks for the help

[Holyman]

First of all... WELCOME to BHQ. The home of some of the brightest minds and deepest BS in the world.

I know this own't help much right now but the first thing you need to do is get a Clymer manual for your Banshee.

Second, there is no real secret to getting the axle nuts off other than the ones you tried. You could very carefully grind a notch in the outer lock nut not quite down to the threads and get a chisel in there. Of course the nut will be ruined but it will come off. One of the problems with using a pipe wrench is that it gets most of it's grip by squeezing so one something that's rusted on and probably got loctight on it, the pipe wrech may actually make it harder to come off.

I've never dug into a clutch so someone else will have to step in there.

[troyminator]

WELCOME to BHQ. The home of some of the brightest minds and deepest BS in the world.

 

Amen to that!

 

T

[John19]

All I did was get some HUGH cressent wrenches and break em lose. I don't see why they won't come off tho. Get someone strong with a cheeter bar and they should

[initall]

Hello everyone,

 

I did buy the manual on CD, and has helped. I have heard that those nuts are regular and revesed threaded from Yamaha dealers. Kind of mixed info. My manual says nothing about being reversed threaded though. I think i will try an acetylene torch this week and see if that helps. if that doesn't i will cut the nuts.

 

Thanks for the welcome,and info

 

I did not realize how great the Banshee is until i rode it!!!!!!

[frocashmoney24]

the clutch is pretty easy, drain the oil and coolent, pop off the clutch cover, loosen the nut holding on the pressure plate, and pop the piece back into the cases, the nuts should come off the axle with what u have tried, try griding a notch into a nut, big enough for a big flathead screwdriver and hitting it with a hammer.

[Holyman]

I wouldn't use oxy-acet torches. May overheat and ruin the temper of the axle. If it was me, I'd chisel it off by grinding a notch in it and hammering it off. They are not reverse thread.

[Hockey390]

I too bought the manual on CD, but the problem is there is so much on there you cant find what you need.. (that or im retarded )

 

But I just bought a Clymer, and man oh man, that thing rocks.. The cd is NOTHING compared to it.. Invest.. Ebay for like $20

[initall]

check this link out.

 

http://216.37.204.206/alba/Yamaha_OEM/Yama...asp?Type=12&A=2