Buell Specialty Tools

[CoastieRider]

What specialty tools do you guys have for the XB's? I'm planning on doing a complete tear down and rebuild.
Found this online; Special Tool Catalog

[icecoldcoasty]

welp i can honestly say that haveing the tool to remove the oil pressure sensor would have been helpfull this summer. Channel locks dont fit and damn near nothing else does eigher. It was a bitch to get to it behind the headers. So that tool may or may not be helpfull

[firefighter1c57]

You'll for sure need a crankshaft locking tool, and probably a clutch spring compressor. Depends I guess on your definition of "complete" tear down and rebuild. Complete would also require some very specialized tooling to press out and press in the transmission mainshaft bearings.

[netty2424]

That catalog is 89 pages, that's going to get expensive!!!

[Big twin]

That catalog is 89 pages, that's going to get expensive!!!

And Kent-Moore tools are costy !

[nemoxb]

Yeah no way would i buy every tool in the book. I have been working on bikes for 11 years yeah some times you need a special tool but sometimes you can do the same thing safely another way... just be smart about it.

[thrstrmech]

saw a bearing puller on evilbay last night for Buells, think the ad stated for the steering head and wheels

[vance580]

I completely tore down my Buell and split the cases. Did not use one Buell special tool. If you take your time and think of other uses for things you can take an engine down without them. The only thing I would of had to make if I needed it was a clutch spring compressor. I didn't do anything with the plates so I just left it as the basket when removing it. An old straight peg from a rearset works awesome for a primary locking tool.

[Red93stang]

An old straight peg from a rearset works awesome for a primary locking tool.

I've heard a door hinge works also.

[firefighter1c57]

An old straight peg from a rearset works awesome for a primary locking tool

mine's a piece of bar stock that I rounded the ends with a grinder... Point is, you still need it. Getting the transmission bearings out and in the cases does take some pretty specialized tooling. If I studied it a bit, I could probably make something.