Crank Case Cover removal?

[furious_blue_imp]

I know this thread is old, but I thought I would chime in with my experience. To make a long story short, I was unable to remove my cover. I drained the oil, removed all the bolts, got a rag and mallet and . . . . the dang thing wouldn't come off! I'm not sure if someone had removed it before me and applied a super gasket of some sort, but I was in my garage for two hours tapping and pulling and cursing.

In the end, I had to refill the bike with oil, apply some JB Weld to the hole in the stator cover (side-swiped in traffic, that's another story) and take it to the shop with my tail between my legs.

On the plus side, because I provided all the parts, the shop bill was only $90. In hindsight, I would've saved myself a lot of grief had I taken it there to begin with.

FWIW, in 2009 I wanted to remove a cover on my Blackbird so that I could replace a broken stator. Same story, tapping, banging but resisting the urge to lever it off with a chisel. I never was able to remove it and it was as it was installed from the factory since I bought that bike new. Professional mechanics must use some kind of slide hammer device to remove it ? maybe ?