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Author Topic: how do you get the drive shaft out  (Read 5142 times)

Jon_P

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how do you get the drive shaft out
« on: January 13, 2008, 04:41:57 PM »
ok i'm a little stumped :-?

i read my book and it said to remove the nut and then press the shaft out. my problem is a dont see a nut on the end of the drive shaft. there is a fastener that has some small splines and what looks like a snap ring. is it just a snap ring holding it in? then press it out? a special tool?

come on rob i know you have a pix of this ;D

i need to remove it so i can weld to the swing arm and then strip for powder coat.
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2008, 06:09:01 PM »
Well, I don't remember what year bike you have, and I think the pre '81 model year it may be a different procedure, but here it is for the 'cush driveshaft'.

You need to remove the swingarm from the bike.

Then remove the swingarm from the final drive, remove the 4-12 point nuts.

You need a fixture similar to the spring compression tool used to dis-assemble McPherson struts in cages.

I think I've seen homemade tools that were just 2 plates of steel, and 2 threaded rods with nuts.

You have to compress the spring in the  drive shaft to get to a wire circlip, I believe it's at the end that mates to the final drive.

After you get the circlip out , relax the pressure on the driveshaft, by loosening the nuts, and it should come right out.



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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2008, 06:52:04 PM »
Sorry Jon, I have never had my drive shaft out...

Nor have I ever helped remove one.

As far as the early R65's being different from the later ones, I don't think so.  The R65/45 was also the test-bed for the spring cush drive on the driveshaft.
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2008, 06:54:48 PM »
Rob,

 You're right, I just found my manual, and it is the same procedure for the earlier model year R65's.
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Jon_P

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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2008, 12:45:12 PM »
thanks for the direction, looks like i will be building a new tool to do this. i will make sure to take pixs along with a materials list of what i used. then i will post a how to on getting the bugger out.
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2008, 07:26:59 AM »
I made one using a couple of 10" by 1 1/2" by 1/2" pieces of wood,  one for either end of the drive shaft.  I then drilled holes to connect them together with some studding with nuts on either end of the pieces of wood to compress the shaft.  You need to drill a whole in the top batten to get access to the snap ring.

did not take long.....

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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2008, 08:08:25 AM »
pretty much what i was thinking, couple of pieces of all thread, couple pieces of flat stock with a hole punched in with the plasma cutter and bam! new tool.

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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2008, 07:28:40 AM »
I whimped out on this one and had Dean at Boxerworks do it for me.  At the time I was in a hurry.  8-)

I removed the swing arm and unscrewed the final drive from the swingarm and took the assembly to him.  Best 20 bucks I ever spent!
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2008, 07:44:42 AM »
Plasma cutter, Jon ?!?  Some guys have all the neat toys.... :'(

One of my clients is a mfgr of plasma cutters - but I don't do enough metal work to justify buying one..
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2008, 08:13:48 AM »
i'm the service manager at a lp and fuel oil truck maintance shop, we also build them for customers. pretty much have what ever i need.

my dad used to work for miller electric also so he had a huge discount so i have a small plasma cutter at home, only cuts up to 3/8", the one i have at work cuts up to a 1 inch!!!
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2008, 11:22:05 AM »
My R65's driveshaft has been changed quite recently - by a local retired Bmw mechanic,  who worked on Bmw motorcycles all his life. He told me that the universal joint failure on my bike was due to the poor condition of the oil inside the swingarm.

According to this retired mechanic, the swingarm oil should always be changed, during normal services. I must admit - I have never changed the swingarm oil before, and it really was in a poor condition.
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2008, 09:11:10 AM »
..........However, personally I think changing the swingarm oil at every normal service, could be a bit of a "over kill" . When I changed my bike's swingarm oil at the first service (5000 km) - since the advice, the oil was still in a very good condition.
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2008, 09:57:47 AM »
I have always change final drive oil, drive shaft oil and transmission every 10,000 or once a year. Same with fork oil. Lube Transmission splines every 10,000/once a year or anytime transmission is removed. Lube wheel bearing and apply grease to final drive splines once and year or anytime the wheels are removed.


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Jon_P

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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2008, 07:12:20 PM »
ok i am missing something? :-? i made my new compressor tool and it didnt move one bit :-? i have a call in with a shop. have to wait to see what i am doing wrong
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Re: how do you get the drive shaft out
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2008, 07:40:51 PM »
Is there any way that you can post a pic of your device and the swingarm ?   It may be hard to tell what you might be doing wrong without some sort of visual assistance..
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