Need a little help
- Thread starter Scraggly
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Quinc
Buy a Superjet
- Location
- California
Anyone try an impact gun on one?
- Location
- Denver, NC
Impact has never worked for me. Too much flex absorbed by the driveshaft. I use a 6" vise bolted to an 8' steel top table that weighs about 600 lbs. Clamp impeller in the vise and use a 4' breaker bar on the spline tool. Have also gotten creative with a pallet of cinder blocks, MAPP gas, and a jack handle 
What I'm trying not to do. I used heat but maybe I need more.
Heat cycles can make a difference too.. Get her reallllll hot then dump some cold water on it. The expansion and contraction should do something..
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OCD Solutions
Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
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- Rentz, GA
I found you need a ton of leverage or a little bit of shock. I use the spline tool in the vise, an offset box end on the impeller tool and a 4lb deadblow hammer. Rarely ever takes more than a couple swings.
The only two I ever fought were a brand new Skat that galled immediately and a Kawasaki 12F. Apparently it's common on the Kawi's as I looked on ebay to see which was the cheaper part to cut and found a bunch of them listed with the impeller still attached to the shaft.
The only two I ever fought were a brand new Skat that galled immediately and a Kawasaki 12F. Apparently it's common on the Kawi's as I looked on ebay to see which was the cheaper part to cut and found a bunch of them listed with the impeller still attached to the shaft.
- Location
- Australia! North qld
Heat is your friend, best advice I ever got was "heat it until you think it's hot enough... Then heat it some more" got myself a decent blow torch and since then have never had problems removing a prop
DAG
Yes, my balls tickled from that landing
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
How would the shaft bend? The force is axel.
cookn
Kamikaze
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- where you live
I had a pump I bought that a guy claimed it was stuck together so it was a good price. Yup it was stuck, I twisted the drive shaft right off, that was with heat and I had it clamped on a manual lathe with a pipe wrench on the shaft
- Location
- Denver, NC
I can see the ebay feedback "Item was as described"
BruceSki
Formerly Motoman25
- Location
- Long Island
Vumad
Super Hero, with a cape!
- Location
- St. Pete, FL
Fro Diesel
creative control
- Location
- Kzoo
@blaster800
There is a thread with blaster800 where he makes a tool to do this. I have welded wrenches on prop before. But to take the spline tool and weld it into a hitch receiver sleeve so you can put the Driveshaft end into the hitch of your truck. Then just support the stator on a wooden work bench. Using this method one person can now remove props without help, even if you have to take the threads with you.
There is a thread with blaster800 where he makes a tool to do this. I have welded wrenches on prop before. But to take the spline tool and weld it into a hitch receiver sleeve so you can put the Driveshaft end into the hitch of your truck. Then just support the stator on a wooden work bench. Using this method one person can now remove props without help, even if you have to take the threads with you.
@CHRIS@EZ-SKI you want to add a cool feature to your hitch haulers? Weld a spline tool inside the inner end of of the receiver portion and a ring to support the driveshaft into the outer end.
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
That is a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAG
Yes, my balls tickled from that landing
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Mike W
Infidel
- Location
- North Florida
Hey brother... I made myself a note on my workshop cabinet years ago so there is no confusion. As what was already mentioned, heat the piss out of the impeller and it should come off "rather" easily.
Mike W
Infidel
- Location
- North Florida
I'm in no rush for the pump. If you need more time than that is totally cool.