bansheeman1988 Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 (edited) This thread is for all you do it yourselfers out there who wanna know how to upgrade your stock plastic impeller to the high flow aluminum one. The job is quite simple and only takes 15 mins to do. Tools required for the job include: a large philips screw driver, hammer, larger punch or an 11/16 socket, and two smaller bladed screw drivers. First, drain all your tranny oil and water, take your brake lever, kick starter and footpegs off. Loosen the clutch cover bolts and wiggle the cover until it slides off. now that you have your clutch cover off, take the water pump cover off. Its the three screws shown in the picture below. Now that's off remove the five bolts holding the water pump cover on. You can see the plastic impeller now and are ready for the next step. Take your two small flat bladed screwdrivers and pry the C-clip off the shaft of the impeller(make sure this doesnt go flying into your face) With that off safely, you now can remove the washer, plastic drive gear and pin from the shaft. The old impeller should slide right out now, with your new aluminum impeller spread a thin coat of grease on the shaft to help seal and lubricate. If your replacing the seal in the case this is how you do it. Take your 11/16" socket and an extension and drive out the seal and bearing. Now that you have the bearing and seal out slide the new seal into place making sure it is centered in the hole. Drive that into place with your 11/16" socket also. Once that is all the way seated, your bearing can go in. Place bearing in the case also making sure that it is centered on the hole, then drive into place with a hard piece of wood or brass. Now reassemble the water pump plate making sure the gasket is on and tighten all five bolts. Now put the water pump cover on and secure the three bolts, install the cover back onto your bike using locktite on all bolts. Slide your kick starter onto its shaft and the brake lever also, hook up all the linkages and tighten all bolts, fill with water and oil and your done! Edited February 26, 2008 by bansheeman1988 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacko2000 Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Kool man, I actually just got a new billet impeller and some other goodies, I havent had a chance to do it yet, but thanx for the pictures.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumby6t9 Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 :thumbsup: Good job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnr Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Good post. I am getting ready to change my impeller and that helped. Between that and clymers it will be a piece of cake. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansheejoel Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 good post man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansheeman1988 Posted February 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 Yeah I figured since I had the pictures and the time, I would help a few people out. I'm Gonna be doing a complete teardown and will do some more write ups on things along the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthemail Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 i like readin writeups! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILLS Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 i see in the post that the gear drive is plastic. the question i have is there an issue with using the aluminum impeller with the plastic gear drive??? any one out there know? please share have the parts and ready to change it out, heading to the florence at the end of the month... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brugal Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosBanshee44 Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 i see in the post that the gear drive is plastic. the question i have is there an issue with using the aluminum impeller with the plastic gear drive??? any one out there know? please share have the parts and ready to change it out, heading to the florence at the end of the month... No it don't matter i've had my billet impeller on ever since i've had my bike and nothing has happened. I wouldn't worry about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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