Showing posts with label cam chain guide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cam chain guide. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Balancer and cam chain guide removed

So, after 8 more bolts that did not come off without some coaxing with the breaker bar, I was able to remove the balancer assembly:



This allowed me to finally gain access to that crappy tensioner guide that is falling to pieces. It was not as simple as I imagined it would be to remove, so I had to improvise a little bit. To remove the main horizontal pin that holds the guide in place, you have to first remove a little vertical pin.


 I took care of this with 2 pieces of coat hanger wire, which I used to kind of pinch and lift the pin, which I could then remove with pliars.


With the retaining pin out of the way, I tilted the remainder of the crankcase to help it slide out, then used that stupid telescopic magnet thing I bought at Autozone years ago because I thought it was cool.


Finally found a user for the thing other than trying to grab metal objects from across the room :D

So here it is, the nasty looking cam chain guide that caused me to split the case in the first place. Its replacement is ordered, so once I have cleaned things up I do not intend to replace anything else within the case.


Wishful thinking I'm sure ;)