mmiller
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- Michael A. Miller
I needed to remove the basket pulley on my 149. Here's a tool I came up with to do it. I'm sure someone else has thought of this but it was new to me.
I took a 4" long piece of pipe and bored it out to just fit over the hub of the pulley. Then I drilled the side so I could screw a bolt through it into the set screw hole of the pulley hub.
Next I welded a nut on the outer end of the pipe to allow my slide hammer to screw on.
I attached everything and started pulling with the hammer and the pulley came off effortlessly!
Notice I welded the nut on the perimeter of the pipe so the pulling force would be parallel to the crank axis. The weak spot in this is there is little surface area for the weld on the nut; I'm going to reinforce this and It will be good to go.
I took a 4" long piece of pipe and bored it out to just fit over the hub of the pulley. Then I drilled the side so I could screw a bolt through it into the set screw hole of the pulley hub.
Next I welded a nut on the outer end of the pipe to allow my slide hammer to screw on.
I attached everything and started pulling with the hammer and the pulley came off effortlessly!
Notice I welded the nut on the perimeter of the pipe so the pulling force would be parallel to the crank axis. The weak spot in this is there is little surface area for the weld on the nut; I'm going to reinforce this and It will be good to go.