luckey204

how do you get the pinion gear off the tail rotor motor?

justin_92_92

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if you dont mind ruining the motor...its probley dead anyways. take two pair of pliers..one on the can and one on the gear.....dont squeez hard on the gear though...and bend the gear on the shaft and itll slid rite off. it works like a charm.

JohnY2004

Save the shaft for using it as a little lock pin for the rotor head.

luckey204

I tried this already! I eded up pulling the motor shaft out of the motor. Yes it was already dead.
now i have about 2 1/8 of an inch of the shaft sticking out of one end of the pinion. This thing des not want to come off!!!!!! This is the only thing keeping me from flying!!!!!!!!![:@]

JohnY2004

The gws micro pinion puller set helps doing the job much easier. You can use it to remove pinions on both the tail and main motors.

SMaric

Now that you have a shaft with a pinion on the end of it

I got a darning needle (thick needle) cut the end of it & used this to drift the shaft off the pinion

I had to have some help (needed at least 3 hands to hold everything)
I gripped the shaft just below the pinion in a pair of pliers
balanced everything on 2 blocks of wood (shaft dangling between them) so that I could drift (gently hammer) the shaft out of the pinion

luckey204

I used a torch to get. That made the job real easy.

quaker1

yeah heat it up and it will slip off easy.