Rear Pulley Removal

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Jack the rear up to where you can take pressure off the shock, remove the bottom shock mount bolt, jack it up a little further and the belt slips right off.

Reverse to reinstall...no adjustment necessary.

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Well, maybe my belt needs adjusting after all. Mine came off with the pulley.

Quote from Toobad4u

Thanks for the quick replies. I'll try it without removing the axle.

Stephen

Pretty sure after the nut is removed you will need to tap the axle in until the pulley comes off the axle spline. The axle doesn't need to be taken completely out. The old loctite should be cleaned off the axle spline and pulley hole before replaced. New green loctite needs to be added at that time too.

Also, once you have the pulley off, there is nothing holding the axle in. Cleaning the axle splines and the nut threads is easier with the axle out.

Something to be aware of when removing the pulley. My axle had the double nut modification done with green lock tight put on the spline and axle threads. To remove the pulley from the spline I had to use a 7 ton pulley while heating the spline area.
When I reinstalled the pulley I only used the green lock tight on the axle thread . Has not move in 3000 miles.

Quote from Travis

Pretty sure after the nut is removed you will need to tap the axle in until the pulley comes off the axle spline. The axle doesn't need to be taken completely out. The old loctite should be cleaned off the axle spline and pulley hole before replaced. New green loctite needs to be added at that time too.

Without knowing who might see this or the readers experience it is worth noting with the axle nut removed the rear brake caliper is capturing the axle so don't go "tapping" on the axle unless you have removed the rear wheel, caliper, and rotor ......

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Quote from Slingrazor

Something to be aware of when removing the pulley. My axle had the double nut modification done with green lock tight put on the spline and axle threads. To remove the pulley from the spline I had to use a 7 ton pulley while heating the spline area.
When I reinstalled the pulley I only used the green lock tight on the axle thread . Has not move in 3000 miles.

Mine was jacked up from the factory with so much bonding agent on the whole assembly it took a torch ....

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Just out of curiosity, are you doing the grease zerk?

Well, when you get to that point, and if there is anything that I can do to help, don't hesitate to let me know

Quote from Toobad4u

I wasn't going to yet. I have another pulley to install so I was just going to do that originally. Now that I'm seeing the zerk thread, I might wait until after bike week here to do the whole job.
Stephen

Did you get this project done?

I think @Toobad4u lives in Panama City so he was going to put this project off until after bikeweek "Thunder Beach" which is going on now