How To Remove Rocker Spindles

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He wasn't far wrong until he got the screwdriver involved. I quit watching then. A heat gun is helpful in loosening up the aluminum to steel tolerances.
 
I didn't look for the valve guide removal video...

I'm sure the guy was well meaning, but too much of this type of repair occurs; the screwdriver part had me wondering if the spindle covers would ever seal again.
 
Geezer/Road, I just posted the video for entertainment purposes. As you know the internal threads are 5/16"x26 tpi. God only knows where he found a metric bolt with those threads. He said he was going to install new spindles, he probably F'd up the existing threads, as well as buggering up the mounting area for the keepers. I wouldn't even want to see him remove/install the guides. Another RH 10 head finding it's way to the junk pile. I had an old slide hammer laying around, bought a bicycle axle with the same threads. Welded the threaded portion of the axle to the slide hammer. Screw it in, a little torch/heat on the head where the spindle touches, and they are removed in a minute.
 
A butcher showing others his butchery, well done, but then how many so call experts out there that are just as bad and charge people who don't know any better, I could name one or two who have ripped my mates off over the years and they keep going back even after major stuff ups.

Ashley
 
Does not the rear rocker cover stud have the correct thread to fit the rocker spindle? The selection of tools on this guys bench is shocking.
 
That was painful to watch. My home made puller consisting of a proper sized stud welded to a piece of 5/16 all thread rod and a section of 1" PVC pipe so you can walk it all the way out looks down right sophisticated compared to that hack.
 
Crankshaft studs use the same threads. With double-nutting and a selection of proper diameter spacers, it's easy.

ABSOLUTELY warm up the head first! ...and on installation, have the rocker shafts frozen in advance, then re-warm the head.
 
"No one tells you how to do it er anythang..."

Guess who doesn't have a shop manual?
 
[quote="God only knows where he found a metric bolt with those threads. [/quote]

I guess he used an 8mm bolt with fine threads, that's pretty close to the 5/16x26. The 5/16 is about 7.94mm in diameter and the 26 TPI equals 0,977 threads/mm, while the fine mm thread has one thread/mm. I'm not sayin' this is the way to do it, believe me, just that maybe it could work.... :?
 
Nortster, you titled the thread wrongly, it should have been "How not to remove rocker spindles".

I have 26 TPI taps and dies, which are vital tools for Norton owners. It didn't take long to cobble up a slide hammer out of stuff I had in my garage. Add some heat and problem solved.
 
As noted, up until the screwdriver got involved, it was fine. A deep well socket would have done the job...as does the little Norton slide-hammer tool. Of course, he was making the point of NOT buying expensive tools so the deep well socket would have been "correct." If he insisted on using the screwdriver - two should have been used - one on either side to pry equally. His use of that single screwdriver is a FAIL even by shadetree standards.
 
I can't wait for his "rebuild" video!

The scary thing is that there are a lot more of these "mechanics" out there then we care to imagine.

Ride On(not with this guy)
Dave
 
Torontonian said:
Thanks for the warnings , I won't click on this video. :wink:
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You really should for the entertainment value alone. Ignore stuff like the unprotected conrods leaning against the crankcase mouth.
 
triumph2 said:
Ignore stuff like the unprotected conrods leaning against the crankcase mouth.
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I knowww! I can appreciate the approach – that old thing about being able to do just about everything yourself, with a limited supply of tools – but there's so much going on here! Like any nicks in those conrods turning them into time bombs, and having to ferret about among his clutter for 'a valve' – I mean really?! A scary lesson in how not to do things, and indeed a reassurance that I don't do too badly after all!
 
Fu#k´n Hell,
Love the bit where he nearly stabs himself at least twice with screwdriver and then the best part where he turns it
lengthways (side on) for more leverage. Not !!!
 
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