Any hints on how to remove the coupler and flywheel on a Kawasaki 750? I started with trying to remove the coupler by a piece of rope down the plug hole and turning the coupler with an old kind of oil filter removal tool, but just wouldn't budge... Or am I better just taking the engine into a shop and getting them to remove it with the proper tools? Probably a 2 minute job with the right tools I imagine. Cheers Dax
Start by taking off the coupler. Easiest way is to put the plugs back in, wind it onto compression stroke and smack the crap out of it with a piece of 4x2. They often need that shock to get them moving... If it has no compression I guess try the same with rope. Flywheel... To undo the nut you can do that with the rope, of even better hold the flywheel as that way you don't load your crank up at all. Getting it off - puller is your only option. Make sure you don't put the bolts thru the flywheel too far and destroy your stator. Get one from Supercheap, or if you feel rich spend some money and get a nice one.
For the flywheel there is a big bolt that you buy that acts as a puller to get it off, I'd say it near impossible to remove without one. I've got the bolt if you want to borrow it.
That would be awesome, I'm gonna have another crack at getting the coupler off after work with Rumbles instructions - I'll give you a call tonight. Cheers
I can see getting the flywheel off with that bolt shouldnt be a problem.... But not having much luck at getting the bastard coupler off. Tried bashing it with a rubber mallot (no 4x2 lying around) but it appears well and truely stuck. The oil filter remover wasn't up for the job, so I used an old coupler and some vice grips to make up a remover - all I managed to do was bend my vice grips.
Well I tried to get it off....but decided to give up before I broke the bits off the coupler. I took the easy way and paid watercraft world fifty bucks to remove both the flywheel and the coupler. Would probably have cost more than that if I wrecked the coupler! Cheers for the advice though Dax
