i am changing my drive belt and i am trying to get the clutch hub off the shaft. it just does not want to come off the shaft it seems that it may have a burr on the end of the shaft it moves a little but it wont budge when it gets to the end of the shaft also do i have to take the compensating sprocket off to get the inner primary cover off?. anyone got any suggestions to get the hub to slide off?? i also noticed a retaining ring that was inside the hub when i backed the nut off?? any ideas on that?? i have a factory manual but it did not say anything about a retaining ring in there.
thanks for any tips or help you guys may have.

 

You have to pull the chain, clutch hub and compensator off as one assembly.

Don't remove that internal snap ring.

 

 

Ok i have figured out what i can and can not do and it looks like i will have too pull it all off as a unit but my new problem is the clutch hub seems to be stuck on the shaft and i cant pry it off .it will slide to the end of the splines but there must be some kind of burr on the end and it wont slide off and i don't want to damage anything getting it off and i was told not to use a clutch hub puller because the hub was aluminum and not steel as the old ones where.i thought about using a big 3 jaw puller and grabbing the ring gear and pushing on the shaft but am still not crazy about that either anyone got any ideas?
thanks

 

Are you sure you are pulling the assy all together, it will bind if you pull the clutch out of synch with the crank sprocket.

Assuming you are doing that correctly there should be no burrs or anything on the splines as they are hardened.

What you could try is twisting the hub side to side as you pull (with bike in gear) as if there was a lot of wear in the splines they might need to be aligned to clear the unworn part.

Never come across a problem like this before and if the twisting doesn't work then you might want to look in there with a torch and post some pics.

 

so i got the hub off and the shaft had a burr on the end of the spline....maybe because i turned the nut the wrong way to start and mashed a burr at the end of the shaft form the start???? i used a big 3 jaw puller and grabbed the ring gear and put some pressure on the hub shaft and with 2 bars worked it off gently from behind the gear and after further inspection of the belt that was the only tare and was only 1/4 long......man i feel like i should have let it ride for all the work to get it off.what do you guys think?do i need to do anything to the stator while in there or anything else for that matter??
and how about the best bang for your buck on the belt?

thanks again

 

If you had done that then the belt would have let go in the most inconvenient place possible!!
You are way better off fixing it before it lets go.

If your not having any trouble with the stator then leave it alone.

 

Stock belts are best, I used to use Carbon Fibre ones but there have been some delamination issues with these so I went back to stock.