{"id":84733,"date":"2006-04-27T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T08:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84733"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:59","slug":"starter-clutch-rewinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20060427\/everyday-events\/starter-clutch-rewinding","title":{"rendered":"Starter clutch rewinding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_34125850_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_34125850_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> It&#8217;s a Yamaha bike! The design is pretty old, you know\u2014&#8221;this thing&#8217;s gonna slip&#8221;\u2014or rather, the starter clutch<br \/>\nstructure is old. Same as the Z and GS models\u2014the M8 bolt-down type! It loosens up, doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nSo I thought I&#8217;d take it off, but&#8230; our tools won&#8217;t do it! Hmm, even if I bought the tool, I&#8217;ll probably never<br \/>\ndo this again! A VMAX or something&#8230;<br \/>\nWell, can&#8217;t be helped! Let&#8217;s make a simple one\u2014<br \/>\nSo I took T=5mm 2017 aluminum, cut it on the contour machine, drilled a 12.5mm hole in the center and 120\u00b0 \u00d7 3<br \/>\n38mm with three holes (8.5mm each), for a total of four holes to make a simple puller!<br \/>\nIt came right off&#8230;. Most of the time went into making the tool and scraping off the gasket&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s a Yamaha bike! The design is pretty old, you know\u2014&#8221;this thing&#8217;s gonna slip&#8221;\u2014or rather, the starter clutch structure is old. Same as the Z and GS models\u2014the M8 bolt-down type! It loosens up, doesn&#8217;t it? So I thought I&#8217;d take it off, but&#8230; our tools won&#8217;t do it! Hmm, even if I bought the tool, I&#8217;ll probably never do this again! A VMAX or something&#8230; Well, can&#8217;t be helped! Let&#8217;s make a simple one\u2014 So I took T=5mm 2017 aluminum, cut it on the contour machine, drilled a 12.5mm hole in the center and 120\u00b0 \u00d7 3 38mm with three holes (8.5mm each), for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-84733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}