Stoopid clutch tool question

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If I buy that fork tool.... and use it to compress the clutch, will it take the stress off the six bolts that hold the clutch cover?
 
Yes, it will. While you have the entire clutch in the compressor, cover side up, you push down on the top shaft on the tool and it will keep the clutch compressed while you take out the six 10mm bolts. Just make sure to realease everything very slowly once the bolts are out because that clutch spring has alot of pressure.

It is highly reccommended NOT to try and take off the clutch cover bolts unless you are somehow keeping it compressed.

--Steve (O.C.)
 
Sorry.
I was talking about the clutch still on sled. Looking for an easy way of changing primary spring without damaging anything
 
Can't really do it on the sled. Not adviseable anyway, but I'm sure people have. I dont really use the compressor either. I have had a friend stand on it while I take it apart and put it back together, I have stacked two 45lb plates from my home gym on top of it and lay on it to compress it while I unbolt it (this is the method I usually use but would not reccomend it as the proper way to do it). But if you are by yourself and dont have the proper tool you got to get a little creative. Maybe someone can chime in with a method to do it on the sled.

--Steve (O.C.)
 
I found out that I can use a goodwin performance clutch dummy tool to do that. The only downside is that you have to remove the clutch bolt to do that. Is that hard? Or adwiseable?
 
With the clutch off the sled I use a 1/2 inch threaded rod in a vise and slide the clutch over and tighten it down with a washer against the cover. Then losen bolts and losen the rod. Simpel and cheap.
 
Danger Dog said:
With the clutch off the sled I use a 1/2 inch threaded rod in a vise and slide the clutch over and tighten it down with a washer against the cover. Then losen bolts and losen the rod. Simpel and cheap.
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Pure genius. ;)!
 
easiest way to do it on the sled is simply take off the main clutch bolt and insert a bolt same thread as the clutch puller uses with a large washer on it, tighten it up by hand till the washer touches cover, you can now remove all 6 cover bolts and then slowly back off the big bolt and relaese the cover. Same process only reversed to install new spring again.

they sell a tool that does the same thing its called a dummy clutch tool, about $40 in dennis kirk.

If its a heel clicker spring you have to do it the way danger dog posted, its too strong and you wont be able to compress the cover/spring far enuff to get bolt started in clutch.
 
Cant you do that with the clutch still on the sled if you have a long enuff rod that goes in to the clutch threads? and you have a washer on the other side, "outer" of the cover and a nut that you screw inward, pushing the washer on the cover, and screwing it back on the clutch?

Danger Dog said:
With the clutch off the sled I use a 1/2 inch threaded rod in a vise and slide the clutch over and tighten it down with a washer against the cover. Then losen bolts and losen the rod. Simpel and cheap.
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I use the clutch puller itself since it already has the correct thread... build up the end with washers/fillers and like mentioned below, tighten by hand until the first washer bottoms to the cover of the clutch.... remove cover bolts and then slowly back out puller.....

Have been doing it with primary removed and on bench because puller tip is quite long, but it might be possible to do it on the sled if you can build up enough with washers/fillers to shorten puller to appropriate length...?


tj..
 
the tool compresses the clutch, you put a little metal U that came with mine to hold it closed, then you can remove the weights without removing the cover I think (its been a few years).
 
I suppose you could use the clutch puller. But I don't know if it has enough threads for some of the taller clutch springs. Or you could get a 1/2 inch fine threaded bolt and weld it to the threaded rod and srew it into the crank and use it that way.
 
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