Topic: Kickstart shaft retaining pin

[scondon]

    Does anyone have a successful method for removing the roll pin that retains the kickstart shaft on the 750's?   I need to inspect the shaft and gears but can't until I can get this pin out. Am afraid of mangling or breaking the protruding end by trying just pliers or vice grips. Thanks. 

[MCRider]

    Does anyone have a successful method for removing the roll pin that retains the kickstart shaft on the 750's?   I need to inspect the shaft and gears but can't until I can get this pin out. Am afraid of mangling or breaking the protruding end by trying just pliers or vice grips. Thanks. 

Coincidentally, I just took one out on my spare engine I stripped (bound for the next project FreeBird II)  After much consternation, I gripped it gently? with vice grips, closing the gap in the pin a little bit, then tapped the vicegrips upward and the dang thing moved up. I repositioned the grips so as to close the gap a bit more, tapped it again and it moved up more. Rinse and repeat. It was out quickly.

Good luck.

[scondon]

 Excellent advice. Thanks

[paulages]

i've also used some large channel lock pliers, gripping and slightly twisting as you pull up. i posted a thread with the same question a little while back, having one that just would not come out. i had to lube it for a week, heat the case, and pull with a vice grip while prying beneath it with a flathead screwdriver.

[MCRider]

i've also used some large channel lock pliers, gripping and slightly twisting as you pull up. i posted a thread with the same question a little while back, having one that just would not come out. i had to lube it for a week, heat the case, and pull with a vice grip while prying beneath it with a flathead screwdriver.

All good advice. Soaking, heating, twisting and prying likely all preferable to tapping.

Ultimately, I was surprised how easily mine came out, after having agonized on how to do it for quite some time.

[Gamma]

    Does anyone have a successful method for removing the roll pin that retains the kickstart shaft on the 750's?   I need to inspect the shaft and gears but can't until I can get this pin out. Am afraid of mangling or breaking the protruding end by trying just pliers or vice grips. Thanks. 

Coincidentally, I just took one out on my spare engine I stripped (bound for the next project FreeBird II)  After much consternation, I gripped it gently? with vice grips, closing the gap in the pin a little bit, then tapped the vicegrips upward and the dang thing moved up. I repositioned the grips so as to close the gap a bit more, tapped it again and it moved up more. Rinse and repeat. It was out quickly.




Good luck.

+1

[MCRider]

i've also used some large channel lock pliers, gripping and slightly twisting as you pull up. i posted a thread with the same question a little while back, having one that just would not come out. i had to lube it for a week, heat the case, and pull with a vice grip while prying beneath it with a flathead screwdriver.

Here tis: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=29496.0

Grabbing it with sidecuts and levering it out sounds fair.

[rbmgf7]

vise grips and twisting motion.

it's just a spring pin. you can find them at Napa.

[Kevin D]

I took mine out with the sidecutters by levering it.

[mystic_1]

That's exactly how I did mine, Kevin.  I've pulled three of them this way recently, and in fact this is the ONLY way I've been able to get them out, vice grips were a no-go for me, but this got them right out.

I was more worried about buggering the aluminum boss that the pin sits in rather than the pin itself, but I had no issues with that.

mystic_1