Understand. In old engines it goes with ease. In the new Ktm engines it goes badly out.

@@PaulXchannel I get them out no problem . I also stock all the dowels for everything I work on .. if you spend more than 2 minutes removing a dowel you just lost money if you're working on these things for a living .

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Pete I agree with you. Can also use a drill blank or shank of a drill bit the right size, put it in the centre of the dowel, clamp the dowel on the outside and pull it out. Done in seconds instead of making complicated tools on the lathe and milling machine.

@@mickl8212 I’m with u , 30 years, u use punch inside, vice grips lightly twist, damage free

how do you mean? I have dowel pins that have sheared off in the engine block, to where I can't get any grip on them at all. They are hollow however, so I am wondering if your method would work on them. I just dont understand what you mean by threading a tap and grabbing with a slide hammer. I'll try research it using the approach you've suggested.

@@antiochiaadtaurum3786 hopefully I can clarify. Before I begin, keep in mind that one option is to drill them out. You will need to get new dowels, but they are shot anyway from the sounds of it. Of course, there are solid dowel pins and there are the ones that I referred to as hollow, like a really short piece of copper water pipe. I like to use a thread tap and create threads in the hollow dowel. The threads created should not be very deep--definitely not as deep as you would normally want to create when making threads. Sometimes the tap will bottom out and pull the dowel right out that way. Sometimes you can hit the tap from the opposite side once it is threaded in. I recommend a brass or aluminum hammer to reduce the risk of breaking the tap. Sometimes you can install a nut/washer on the tap with an even larger dowel that fits over the one you are removing to be used as a puller to remove the dowel. If a larger dowel isn't available, even a short piece of 3/4" copper pipe can work well. If none of that works, heat the aluminum housing with a mapp gas torch hard and grab the dowel with a vice grips and it would not surprise me if it literally falls right out.

I should also add that the slide hammer is used with an adapter to attach it to a vice grips. I thread the tap in, grab it with a vice grips / slide hammer combo and pull it right out. It USUALLY works, but some are much more stubborn and this won't work.

So you need to spend $15,000 on a lathe and mill to make a 40 cent pin. ?

When you make 37 500 pins - the money for the lathe a mill is back.

@@bsiegloff You'll notice I said "consistent"... I'm talking about across all his videos, not just this one, lol.

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@@PaulXchannel True. May have rush out and buy some machinery so I can remove the pin I dont have.

В точку. Как и сделал бы человек с действительно разумным подходом.

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Once you make it and then you still use it :) Thanks for watching.

Better than from the cylinder head ;)

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Some dowelpins are hardened!

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