so i thought i would pull out my skid tonight to grease it up and put on some new goodys...that went good then since i had it out i figured i would grease up the jack shalft bearing and guess what as soon as i took the speedo housing off the cable going into the shalft broke off inside now................what the crap caused that????? and how do i get the rest out?????
Usually a sign that the bearing is going bad. You can use a small drill bit to get the rest out.
o yea that bearing was bad i forgot that part
smokingcrater
Member
if you are lucky you can get it out with a small drillbit as the other poster mentioned. If you are unlucky and it wedged up, you get to pull the driveshaft out to work on it!
I just removed two this past week. One I was able to knock an allen wrench into it and wiggle it out. The other was a different story. That one I had to drill and tap and use a slide hammer to get out. That one the driveshaft was out to do, But the bearing was stuck on it and was a major pain in the *** to get off. Had to heat it up and use the shop press. I heard someone else use a mig welder and weld the wire to the broken shaft and pull it out with that. That way wouldn't have worked for either of these last two I did.
rx1jim
New member
You can try a small drill bit, turn it in by hand and try to get the bit to grab the broken part then pull it out. You can also try threading in a small dia. wood screw or sheetmetal screw, small enough dia. to thread into the broken cable then pull it out.
im going to work on it tonight ill let u guys know how it goes and hopfully i dont find any more suprizes
ALLSEASONRIDER
Member
rx1jim said:
That worked real well on my SXR a couple years ago.....
TRUE BLUE SINCE 1980
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If you cant get the spedo cable piece out , just push it in. I did this a few years ago on an SXR. Worked just fine, Shaft is hollow," way in there''