shadetree

the hydraulic trick will not work, the center is hollow, wont work because of this.

i ran across this very same thing with a old drive shaft catfish gave me..i used everything under the sun to pull it apart..it would not budge one inch !. heat..10 lb sledge hammer...winch..truck..com-along..everything..it was done !..lol. i said screw it...did what wilson said...just went to tractor supply, purchased a new one, they are cheap. save your hair, money, time..go buy a new one !.

umm..yeah..lol.

got an axle on order, shows/says it may be here this coming sat ?. i replaced the leaf springs, got a replacement light on its way, replaced the shackles as well. got a carb coming for my chain saw, all this stuff shows to get here before this sunday ?. if it all gets here at least by saturday ?, i will have it all taken care of, load up my 450 on the trailer, with a few things to touch up my blind, head down there..knock that all out, get back home some time sunday. this will be a good test on the new tires i will have installed on rims before i make this trip. will update my blind with more pics if an when i get there and back sunday ?.

lol..his trailer is worse than mine...can you guess why ?..rofl. yer right...he'll never pull my trailer again !.

lol..i did not do anything to it...the guy pulling it to my spot is the one who damaged it !..lol. he pulled it through the back forty woods..going through 2 ft washouts, bent the axle, bent the left fender, broke the clearance light that was on the fender, bent the leaf springs. with a bent axle, when i pulled it home that night, little did i know the axle was bent ?..wore the tires out pulling it back home. sooo..yeah,,all this damage made a mess of my trailer. luckly al and the guy that pulled the trailer told me they would chip in to pay for the damage. i know al is good for it..not sure about the guy that did the damage when he pulled it from camp to my spot ?, it messed it up good..lol.

kinda late to the party ?, but..better late than never !. when i remove swing arm bearings ?, i put the swing arm in my bench vise..from drive shaft side, i am able to hammer out the tin grease cup and bearing/bearing race. then for the far side, i flip the swing arm in my bench vise where i can come through the drive shaft's swing arm bearing opening, with a long drill bit, i drill a hole in the swing arm just left of the drive shaft opening, then i use a very long steel bar to reach all the way through the drilled hole..all the way over to the inside of the right rear swing arm bearing tin grease cap/bearing, bearing race..and hammer it out from the inside of the swing arm, works very well doing it this way.

i run a 20 lb propane bottle with my sun flower heater attached to it, it will run me out of there if i do not turn it off ?, or open a wndow ?..lol.

a new honda oem seat will set you back about 100 bucks...give or take.

lol..hey..if its works ?..gas on it !. not counting my trailer getting messed up from the pull to my spot ?, i got about 1100 bucks into my blind set-up. another 1k to replace messed up parts on my trailer...sigh.

he showed up..just not with the tractor...but his sidexside..lol. we had to lay the stand base down up against the blind bottom while it was on my trailer, me climb inside the blind, and screw the floor to the base, then wrap a strap around my blind, hooked his 5000lb winch line to the strap, he pulled it up, while a few of us lifted the whole thing up from the backside. i also tied a rope around the back side , so once it got up, we could hold it from going all the way over. it worked out pretty dang good.

yeah..it's called : THE GOVERNMENT !!..LOL.

update: here is a couple pic's of my stand in its spot !. we left to go put my old stand up in its new spot, then i had to come back to trim some trees, put some brush/limbs around the base, i did not get any pics of this being done. i still need to put the carpet back down inside, put the chair back together. i'll prob head back down there to do this later on before nov 11th. i really love how it turned out. the pic of the guy in orange is al, he's the guy leasing the land that is letting me hunt here. the pile of guys are a few camp members that came to help put my stand up.

just got the truck hooked to trailer, truck is all loaded, ready to roll out when the time comes. i'll get some pic's when my '' shade shack '' is up and sitting in my spot !.

then i would say bad reg/rec ?..or bad c.d.i. ?..he said the c.d.i.smelt burnt ?..lights blown, tells me the reg/rec went out, and these parts got fried.

for real !..oh...you can get windows for them ?..IF YOU PAY EXTRA FOR THEM !..LOL.

normally, when lights blow, fuses blow..this is a sign of an over load from a bad reg/rec.

it does not get voltage from stator at all ?..what recharges the battery then ?. if the stator fails...( from what i've been taught ) then the reg/rec can't recharge the battery...or am i missing something ?.

ohm'ing out the stator ( service manual tells you what spec's you should see ) is using a multimeter on the stator wire side only, putting meter on the correct setting ( look at service manual for this model ), it will tell you what reading you should be getting when you probe the connector side ( stator only ! ) with red and black probe stuck into each connector at once, look at meter, it will show you some numbers when you do this. then, take just the red probe, stick into each yellow connector on stator side only !, black probe to a good ground, watch meter...you should not see any numbers show up on meter ?..if you do ?, your stator has an open circuit, in other words..it won't fire spark plug !. little lesson here : stators generate AC votlage, this voltage goes to the reg/rec, this reg/rec converts the AC voltage to DC voltage, this DC voltage is what travels to your c.d.i. , it then heads to spark plug coil to fire spark plug.

as fish said above ^^^..with a 12vdc test light, key on, attached to neg on battery, probe BOTH sides of all fuses, you should get a lit test light when you do this test , if you do not ?, then that fuse is bad. you will also need to ohm out the stator, if it has an open circuit ?, you will not get spark. you need to ohm out the spark plug coil to see if its in spec ?. you can probe the wires leading to '' kill switch '' to make sure you are getting power in...and power out of kill switch ?. you need to test ignition switch, make sure you are getting power in..and power out of this ?. last but not least for now ?..YOU MUST HAVE A GREEN NUETRAL LIGHT ON DASH ?!..if you do not ?, you will never get any spark on spark plug !.

oh trust me...i priced those blinds out...good lord !..and flimsy as all get out !. and yes..you still have to build the platform, and some of them do not even come with windows !.

p.s. ?..wth is that ??..IRS..and what is this ?..lol. whata wuss..i'm 59, and i've learned to deal with old school honda's !. once you learn on an old '89 trx350D foreman ?..you learn real quick how to ride without all those ''' extra '' parts on them !..lol

update: ok, first trip out today was to academy sports to purchase 4 brackets to use 4x4 post in. these seem very well thought out for Rasing a deer stand. then off i went to lowes to buy some lumber. got 4-4x4x10' treated post, 3-2x6x8', and some treated 2x4x10' , 2x4x12' for bracing and to make a ladder. here is all this loaded on my trailer. still need to load all my tools and such that will go in my truck bed.

indeed, lumber prices have came down a tad. spent 250 bucks today for another load of lumber..sigh..lol. least it will be built right !.