Message text written by Cliff Hansen
>My advice is to make up a puller and see if some tension will
>break it loose. It looks like a simple two-arm puller, each arm
>clamps onto the ridges extending from the sides of the extension
>housing.
>Now that I've looked at it, I'll be really interested in your solution.<
The Haynes manual shows a circlip (Fig 6.3, pg 128, item#35) that the text
says to remove after removing the flange, but the diagram makes it look
like it is on the inside side of the bearing. I see no circlip to be removed
and
my ever trusted mechanic and triumph bailer-outer says there is no circlip
either. I wonder what Haynes was thinking????
I have hammered pretty hard on the tail housing and only got about 3/8" travel.
It will not go further. I think I may well need a puller. It ought to be less
dramatic than hammering.
I'd have to buy some sort of puller as I have none.
I got a disturbing fragment of metal to fall out of the transmission as I
separated the tail housing a little. A curved 1/2" wide section of something.
It seems to have broken through a hole. It also seems to have been pinched hard
somehow. Sort of looks like a fragment of a bearing race. All bearings seem
to move smoothly. Seems to have come out of the tail shaft, but who knows?
I will report my success in removing the tail housing! (hopefully)
-Tony
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