SUCCESS!! :rawk: Remember in the Indiana Jones movie where that wicked guy pulls the heart out of his victim? Well, I got that engine off the bike!! Like Dick Van Dyke in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I'm gonna work on that sucker in seclusion until it's fixed :hide:
If you recall, I had a problem with getting the chain sprocket off of the engine as I didn't have enough slack. In the manual, it says to leave the pivot screw in (that's the big one, toward the back of the engine) but I took that one out third from last as I wanted to pivot on another mounting bolt to give me slack. It's hard to explain, but it worked. Got my slack and the sprocket came off with ease.
I also couldn't get the gearshift clevis(?) off, so I loosened both sides of the adjustment rod and unscrewed it. (If you do this, keep in mind that one side is a left hand thread and the other side is a right hand thread) In my mind, this is WAY easier than fighting with that thing!
I also had a problem with the clutch cable bracket. They have Philips head screws on there for some ungodly reason! There is nothing worse than trying to remove Philips screws that have been exposed to the elements. After much usage of bad language, I thought, "what would MacGuyver do?" So I bent the bracket to release the cable!
