dbart
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So, my buddy Casey has a 2015 RZR 1000 and needed to replace the primary and secondary clutches. Dave and I were headed over to help.
Secondary was cake for him as he had it off and replaced before Dave and I could get over there.
Now comes the primary, get the shock out of the way, impact on the shaft bolt...easy peasy!
Watch a couple videos, check the torque specks, 96 lt/lb...set the torque wrench and away we go
Quick little zip with the impact to get it on...then Dave get's his torque wrench out....tighten....tighten.....tighten....almost there....SNAP!!!!!!
(Insert blank stare and HOLY EFF BALLS WHAT THE EFF JUST HAPPENED??)
As the bolt slides out and the the primary is still attached we just are at a loss!
About 1" of thread is stuck on the engine side...
Now they were able to get the primary off but inside the cavern of despair is this chunk of Kryptonite, lodged with what looks like it's middle finger point back at us smiling. (I think we all heard a little laugh from the souless piece of busted metal!
I make a call to @Intro2Rhino and I knew it was bad when I tell Johnny what happened, his reaction was UH OH!
Not really knowing any sort of quick fix it, it see,ed now that Casey most likely having to take his rzr to a shop.
But...we are sitting there.
Could we extract it? might as well try.
2 hours of Casey and Dave drilling, we decide to take a break and get some lunch, an ice cold beer and come up with a game plan.
Dave had a brilliant idea of getting a Left handed bit (reverse threaded)
Makes sense cause they could feel that while drilling normally the bit was somehow getting pushed farther in, it was turning.
Auto Zone had the Reverse (left handed) bit.
The trick was to glo slow...I give it a go since they had been drilling for a couple hours before.
Super slow speed, I could actually feel it grabbing...OMG is this working????
Metal shavings are coming out...it's going in!
So, I decide to try the extractor...you could actually see the drill backing out...OMG...is this seriously gonna work.
I get to a point where I try to pull the extractor out, but it is stuck (That's a good thing) so I keep going.
All the sudden it feels loose and I figure the bit came out so I pull the drill out....GASP!!!!
There it is...The blasted Evil chunk of threaded misery is out!
We all just yelled, hooted and hollered.
Disaster averted...the look on my face tells it all as I pulled that thing out!
New bolt is on order.
Now to anyone doing this....do not use the existing bolt, order the replacement one. when replacing this stuff!
db
Secondary was cake for him as he had it off and replaced before Dave and I could get over there.
Now comes the primary, get the shock out of the way, impact on the shaft bolt...easy peasy!
Watch a couple videos, check the torque specks, 96 lt/lb...set the torque wrench and away we go
Quick little zip with the impact to get it on...then Dave get's his torque wrench out....tighten....tighten.....tighten....almost there....SNAP!!!!!!
(Insert blank stare and HOLY EFF BALLS WHAT THE EFF JUST HAPPENED??)
As the bolt slides out and the the primary is still attached we just are at a loss!
About 1" of thread is stuck on the engine side...
Now they were able to get the primary off but inside the cavern of despair is this chunk of Kryptonite, lodged with what looks like it's middle finger point back at us smiling. (I think we all heard a little laugh from the souless piece of busted metal!
I make a call to @Intro2Rhino and I knew it was bad when I tell Johnny what happened, his reaction was UH OH!
Not really knowing any sort of quick fix it, it see,ed now that Casey most likely having to take his rzr to a shop.
But...we are sitting there.
Could we extract it? might as well try.
2 hours of Casey and Dave drilling, we decide to take a break and get some lunch, an ice cold beer and come up with a game plan.
Dave had a brilliant idea of getting a Left handed bit (reverse threaded)
Makes sense cause they could feel that while drilling normally the bit was somehow getting pushed farther in, it was turning.
Auto Zone had the Reverse (left handed) bit.
The trick was to glo slow...I give it a go since they had been drilling for a couple hours before.
Super slow speed, I could actually feel it grabbing...OMG is this working????
Metal shavings are coming out...it's going in!
So, I decide to try the extractor...you could actually see the drill backing out...OMG...is this seriously gonna work.
I get to a point where I try to pull the extractor out, but it is stuck (That's a good thing) so I keep going.
All the sudden it feels loose and I figure the bit came out so I pull the drill out....GASP!!!!
There it is...The blasted Evil chunk of threaded misery is out!
We all just yelled, hooted and hollered.
Disaster averted...the look on my face tells it all as I pulled that thing out!
New bolt is on order.
Now to anyone doing this....do not use the existing bolt, order the replacement one. when replacing this stuff!
db
