That is pure brilliance . I'll have to offer that as advice some time...

 

Remove spark plug and fill hole with water, replace plug and remove clutch. Invert bike and remove water.

 

Interesting, although I'd sub oil for water. Fill with piston halfway? TDC? BDC?

 

Yeah, that would work pretty slick if you were into the engine that far. I was happy that I didn't have to take any more covers off. PITA Not bad but nowhere as easy as the Kawi that guy did in that Transworld MX how to video.
Dan

 

NOTHING is ever as easy as they show in the video.......

 

If you have the spare parts take two metal plates and two fibre plates, line them up to fit into the clutch basket and inner basket. Drill holes to hold them together with some nuts/bolts, weld on a suitable handle on the metal plate to hold the plate tool when torquing down/removing the nut. I have used one on my two strokes and the same tool applies here...

 

Ah! Good trick! Now that you mention it I saw a tool like that on the EBC website for $25. Sounds easy enough to make though.
Dan

 

Thanks, that's what I had intended to do. Was yours much stiffer😉

 

Glad you got the clutch nut off.

I know this is too late to help you but perhaps will be useful to someone else, I used the combination of the tranny in 6th, a 22-year-old son standing on the rear brake, and the socket on a 1/2" drive breaker bar. That got the job done for me... I was shy about using an air-impact on the tranny.

TC

 

Can you not just air impact gun it off?? I have been able to do that with pinion nuts and such without having to hold it much at all