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Death to Phillips! (screws)

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use a good phillips screwdriver of the correct size take your handy vise-grips and clamp them hard to the handle at a 90 degree angle smack the screwdriver hard with hammer then turn. the vise-grips give you much more leverage and you can push against the screwdriver with your shoulder. low tech but it has saved a lot of stripped screws. once you get the screw out replace it.
 
txironhead said:
I might look into getting some of those JIS screwdrivers, though. Always fun to "one-up" my family members in the old tool game: "I've got a tool that you don't!"
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I bought three JIS screwdrivers from a company that was referenced in a post several months ago. They sent me two that were JIS and one that wasn't. All three are high quality screwdrivers. I can just barely tell a difference between them and my 35 year old Monkey Wards Powercraft Phillips screwdrivers. And when I use them on the screws on my GS I can't feel any difference at all.

But they are a really neat green color!

Tom
 
Jd Powell said:
use a good phillips screwdriver of the correct size take your handy vise-grips and clamp them hard to the handle at a 90 degree angle smack the screwdriver hard with hammer then turn. the vise-grips give you much more leverage and you can push against the screwdriver with your shoulder. low tech but it has saved a lot of stripped screws. once you get the screw out replace it.
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If clearance problems won't let you get your impact driver at a screw try this...

Use the chuck and bit from your impact driver with the appropriate adapter(s) to either a 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 inch ratchet. Put valve grinding compound on the tip of the bit for additional friction grip.

And as JD sez whack that screw a few times, this is IMPORTANT it helps break the physical bond that forms from the use of steel screws in aluminum.
 
Apart from the valve grinding compound (didn't have any handy) that's exactly how I've removed the screws so far. The only screws I haven't gotten around to replacing with the bolts from the kit are the clutch cover screws. I'm planning on removing a screw, installing the allen bolt, remove a screw, etc. That way I don't have to mess with replacing the gasket just yet. I should, I know. I just don't have the time or the money to replace everything that I should.

I've also heard that you must be very careful removing the clutch cover because if you don't loosen it evenly the force of the springs can break some of the bolt hole ears off. Since I really don't have the money for a new cover, it's yet another reason I haven't gotten around to doing it.

As it is, this bike is costing me about $200 more than I'd planned, which is about par for the course for me, and I still haven't put a tire or chain on it.

It WILL run!
 
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