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Old Oct 17, 2010 | 11:07 AM
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does anyone know how to remove blind triple trees?

i have been looking at mine for an hour and i can't figure it out. i don't see any nuts to loosen. any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you
 
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Old Oct 17, 2010 | 11:28 AM
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Pics might help...

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here's a few pictures. thank you
 
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Agreed. Pics would be a big help here as there are many different styles of blind trees. In general though, you must loosen the pinch bolts and slide the tubes down and completely out of the trees. You should then be able to unscrew the lower tree. If yours has setscrews or keying pins securing each (or either) tree to the shaft, then there may be additional steps.
 
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Mr. Lucky, the pics are above!

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there are no pinch bolts or any nuts to undo.
 
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Arghh... I started my previous post and then got called away to the phone! I see that you posted pics in the meantime. I can't tell if you have pinch bolts or not. If not, it looks like you have to remove the bushing bolts on the underside of the lower tree as step #1.
 
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i have already removed everything that can be removed
 
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okay, i believe this is the problem. i need to remove this thing. is there a tool to remove this and what is it called and where can i find one?


thank you
 
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okay, never got it off yesterday but i have finally found the maker of my front end and i'm going to give them a call later today.

http://www.sunmyth.com/clamplock.htm

this is what i have, does anyone have any experience with sun myth front ends?
 
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