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M/C snap ring

beemerboy
This likely has been dealt with before. If so I apologize. I am next to madness with the *&#%^ little snap ring deep inside the M/C. Two questions: How do I get it out without the special 90 degree pliers from Motion Pro? Do those pliers actually work?
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TOOLS1
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You don't, and they do. I got mine from vintagecb750.com for $10.00. Had them for several years now and used them on countless master cylinders.
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I got a set on sale (isn't everything always on sale?) at Harbor Freight. It came with different angled attachments, and I love it.
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TOOLS1
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I really doubt that that Harbor Freight set of snap ring pliers has an attachment that will reach down into that small hole in the master cylinder to remove the snap ring way down in there.
TOOLS
Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."

1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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beemerboy
Tools has that right. I spent a whole $3.99 on the HF snap ring plier set. The 90 degree tips are too short. The straight tips are too fat to fit in the small space. Having nothing better to do, I ground down the tips to fit in the space allowed. When I squeezed the pliers, the fine chinese steel bent like a wet noodle.