I am having issues with sticking throttle shafts on my Waverunner's twin carbs.
I have the carbs on the bench and have sorted one side. This still had the OEM phillips head screws holding the throttle blade to the shaft and only required the factory deformed end threads to be cut off and then I was able to extract them, easily.
The other carb is a different story.
The throttle blade is held in with 2mm head allen bolts and I managed to get one 1/3 of the way out with the allen key and then the rest of the way with mole grips, but the second one won't budge and the allen key and a torx key just slip.
With the head being flush, I can't get the long nose mole grips on it and when I clamp them to the rear threads, they just slip.
Aside from drilling it out, which I really do not want to do, or hammering a torx bit etc into the head, again not something I want to do, does anyone have any suggestions?
I have the carbs on the bench and have sorted one side. This still had the OEM phillips head screws holding the throttle blade to the shaft and only required the factory deformed end threads to be cut off and then I was able to extract them, easily.
The other carb is a different story.
The throttle blade is held in with 2mm head allen bolts and I managed to get one 1/3 of the way out with the allen key and then the rest of the way with mole grips, but the second one won't budge and the allen key and a torx key just slip.
With the head being flush, I can't get the long nose mole grips on it and when I clamp them to the rear threads, they just slip.
Aside from drilling it out, which I really do not want to do, or hammering a torx bit etc into the head, again not something I want to do, does anyone have any suggestions?
