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J€Di
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| Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:02 am How to undo the variator nut |
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1) Buy one of these...
... from here...
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7402230/Trail/searchtext%3EIMPACT.htm
... for £19.99.
2) Use it with the 17mm socket to undo your variator nut, and to retighten it afterwards.
DO NOT DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
In case you think you can do the job without spending £20... read on.
1) Take off the fan casing, remove fan, and use the fan bolts to bolt a large piece of steel to the flywheel. This is a 100% sure way of screwing up the stator windings meaning your bike won't run at all until you replace them. It's £40 for the parts plus £20 for the flywheel puller that you'll need to fit it. Or it's around £150 if you take your scooter to a garage - this is how much they'll charge you, once they stop laughing. And you'll need the impact wrench to remove the flywheel bolt. I'm not exagerating here - three people on this site alone have done this in the last three months.
2) Jam a large screwdriver into the teeth on the variator outer wheel. Bye bye teeth, hello bent wheel. The starter gear won't engage. Probably only around a tenner or so in parts to fix, but you'll need that impact wrench to fit the new one. So that's an extra tenner you needn't have spent.
3) Jam a large piece of wood between the variator outer wheel and the transmission case. There's a few possible outcomes here - the wood will break up and you'll break your fingers on the floor, or the transmission case will bend so that the tranny cover will not seal properly and all kinds of crap will end up coating the variator, clutch and belt eventually causing something to seize up, slip, or break. Hard to put a price on this one, but it's a lot more than £20.
So there you have it - a definitive guide.
Could a mod PLEASE sticky this as soon as possible??? |
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Yellow Scooter
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| Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:25 am |
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There's a lot of folks that hear 'impact wrench' and automaticly think we mean the $250 piece from snap-on or something.
From the pic we can clearly see that nobody is talking about going out and getting a triple chrome plated anniversary edition piece of equipment.
Let go of a dollar! I paid more for my strip-sockets. |
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andyscooter
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| Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:54 am |
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| there you go stickyfied and also moved into hints tip and diy :lol: |
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thruss91
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| Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:18 am |
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those impact wrenches work! craig bought one yesterday and it speeds up between the punches. mine just hacks away at it.
andy why do you laugh when you sticky something? lol |
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Tiger Totty
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| Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:10 pm |
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Cheers for this Jedi, changed the rollers at the weekend, got stuck on the variator nut.....after a bit of swearing from the BF I came on here and low and behold found this thread.
Off we went to Argos, picked one up and the nut was off in a flash.
So once again Jedi to the rescue, thank you have a K!
Totty |
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J€Di
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| Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:13 pm |
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| You're welcome TT, happy to help :) |
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px166bajaj
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| Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:29 pm |
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Here's a video of me removing my Aerox variator nut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36CcufPuDu0 |
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TheDarkCutlass
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| Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:54 pm |
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px166bajaj wrote: Here's a video of me removing my Aerox variator nut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36CcufPuDu0
ahh yes, classic english accent we here over in da good ol` us of a have come to know lol
Sorry for that, anywho, great video that shows you how simple it is when you have the right tool, unlike all the other ways (that you should do) your fighting for like 30 minutes... heck in that time I could of gone to the store,m bought the damn impact and have the nut off. |
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McLovin
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| Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:08 pm |
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| Yay a real accent, not this Hugh Grant crap that no one else talks like. |
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px166bajaj
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| Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:26 pm |
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I hate my voice on that, it sounds squeaky! :lol:
I don't really look like this!
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thruss91
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| Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:21 pm |
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| lol you vids made me chuckle "it looks like s**t but she runs" :lol: then the thumbs up lol |
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threedogs61
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| Thu May 29, 2008 2:25 pm |
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| I have have an impact wrench that is operated by an air compressor. Will this work as well? |
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