primary clutch wont budge!

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allidoisski

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I have a 93 vmax4 750. I am trying to pull the primary and it just wont come off. I bought a clutch puller to get it off and all that happed is it bent the puller. Can I take apart the engine without taking off the primary? does anyone have any tips or tricks????
 
some guys have taken and filled the threaded area with grease and then used the clutch puller again. It is hydraulics then that will help pop the clutch.
 
I bent a puller too. Then I tipped the sled on it's side and filled the hole with water, taped the threads of the puller with teflon tape and hydrauliced it off. It came off easy this way. Good luck.
 
nice sled, i have 2 of them. try vmax4.com as well. lots of guys there who know them sleds inside and out. not saying people here dont know their stuff but there is a ton of model specific info there and can be a great source for finding parts.
 
First make sure you have an OEM puller. Aftermarket ones are junk and bend. Use the grease or water method as they work!! Also a little heat will help. Do a search their is a ton of tricks that people have done, dont remember them all. CCC
 
Well i have created a bit more of a problem... Yes I did buy a cheap puller for $20 on e-bay and it probably would have saved me from this now bigger problem if I would have bought OEM.
After bending the end of the puller a few times, then re-straightening it back out in a vice, I have now broke the end off inside the clutch. Figured I could just pull it out with a magnet... wrong... It seems to have mushroomed or expanded due to the low grade metal and is now stuck in the threads. Now I feel as if I am quite a ways up a river without a paddel.
Any ideas now?????

Biggest lesson here for me, should have bought an OEM for $40! Never buy cheap crap from e-bay!
 
Yes this is a big mess but thier is still hope. Last yr i snapped off the primary bolt in the threads. I cut my puller down so it would thread into the clutch. So here is what i can do unless someone else has a better idea. Send me your address and i will send you my cutdown oem puller. Get a grease gun. Fill the hole as full as you can with grease. Shove the gun as far in as you can and fill with grease on the way out. Put teflon tape on the threads, (lots of it) and thread into clutch. Now this part is up to you. First one is get a buddy and a 5' breaker bar. One holds the wrench on the puller and the other on the bar. It will break loose if you keep steady pressure. Next which i did but others will yell at me is use a impact wrench. Hold the clutch real good, same method for both ( i use broom handle through clutch, again will get yelled at). Set the gun and PSI on high end and it will pop right off. Depending on who you talk to and both opions are valad it can be hard on the crank. Some say its too much torque on it others say its so fast it dont bother it at all. So like i said up to you. My disclamer : not resposable in any way for damage to you or your clutch :). Once off then you can work on the puller stuck in crank threads. Maybe its sticking out some and you can just twist it out. Deal with that after you get the clutch off. You might want to cut your puller down a tad and use same method, cant hurt. Otherwise i can send mine out on monday. Anything else for him guy's!!!! CCC
 
Thanks super1c. But i got the peice that broke off out. drilled, tapped, and a long 1/8 inch bolt got it out. cleaned it out with compressed air. Now im going to order the correct puller and use the grease method. Thanks everyone for the advise. Ill give her another go when the new OEM puller arrives.
 
I hope you didn't damage your threads in your crankshaft when you bent the puller, I did. I had to retap them. If you did you would need a 1/2" fine tap to clean them up. I was surprised to find out that the threads weren't metric.
 
first of grease up the end. have two people. have one person stick a large wrench in through the clutch to hold it in place. Them start tightening. Hit the wrech with a hammer to keep tightening it. If it wont go still hit the tip of the puller with the hammer not to hard but not to soft... Should get it done...
 
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