shanksyamaha
TY 4 Stroke Guru
Im taking my skid apart to send in for the beef up kit but I can't get the top idler wheels off the upper suspension arm, how do they come off???
shanksyamaha
TY 4 Stroke Guru
Anyone?? Im sure enough guys have taken these apart... I don't see what is holding them on
big guy
Extreme
I tap them off with a hammer. I am pretty sure it is a interference fit. On reassembly. I've been using antiseize. Makes for a little easier job removing.
RippinV
Expert
I had to use a torch and a hammer on one of the three sleds I did about a week ago. The one with the highest mileage was the worst (8700 mi). The wheel was seized on there, ended up replaceing the wheel. Make sure you use a 1" socket or so to compress it back on.
shanksyamaha
TY 4 Stroke Guru
Thanks guys, I just wanted to make sure there wasnt something I was missing before I hammer the bell out of em, If I gotta get new wheels when Im done I will, just didn't want to ruin them for no reason.. Thanks...
Snowmobileaddict
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
I had the same problem. I tore mine down last week, and posted the same question you did in the "Suspension Section" of the forum.
I released the circlips that hold the bearings in the upper idlers. Then I used my 3-jaw puller to pull each bearing off the cross shaft.
I wasn't concerend about putting the 3-jaw puller on the outer bearing races, becuase I planned on replacing those this off-season anyway.
The fitment of these bearings on the cross shaft is really too tight, if you ask me.
I released the circlips that hold the bearings in the upper idlers. Then I used my 3-jaw puller to pull each bearing off the cross shaft.
I wasn't concerend about putting the 3-jaw puller on the outer bearing races, becuase I planned on replacing those this off-season anyway.
The fitment of these bearings on the cross shaft is really too tight, if you ask me.
yamadog1
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
wheel
if your talking about top idle wheels on shaft, get a spare bolt open vise up so shaft fit and wheel against vise and tap on bolt, make sure bolt is tight. very easy.
if your talking about top idle wheels on shaft, get a spare bolt open vise up so shaft fit and wheel against vise and tap on bolt, make sure bolt is tight. very easy.
shanksyamaha
TY 4 Stroke Guru
Got em. It wasn't too bad I just didn't want to pound the hell out of the wheels and then find out there was something I didn't see holding them on. Once I hit em with a little force, they came off, I'll put a little never seize on when I put it back together, hopefully it'll make em easier to get off next time
Honk
TY 4 Stroke Master
I've never needed to replace a bearing in these upper wheels, till I got my 07 GT pulled apart. Both were so tight ya couldn't turn um. Then I was amazed, I couldn't buy an American bearing. I could buy an American box with a china bearing, or a napa bearing made in china, or a carquest bearing made in china all with wildly different pricing. The Yamaha bearing was made in romania? go figure? you would think they would run a jap bearing. who knows?
