easier to remove CVT cover ??

[Stig / Major Tom]

...If you don't wait too long after purchasing to remove it...maybe?
After seeing videos and posts about how hard it is to remove the cvt cover from a Burgman 400 (plus - the gear oil drain & fill is hidden in there. @!#!) and because my new, but left-over, scooter is some 27 mos old, I  very reluctantly undertook this job yesterday, after my AM ride.
I'm certainly no master mechanic - and after watching youtubes' expert Burgman mechanic have so much trouble getting the cover to release from the big bearing on the clutch shaft - I was not looking forward to this. Just figured to ignore it would only make it harder next spring.
I unfastened all those little hex screws and Shee-oot,  it fairly popped off in my lap!!
I inserted but did not get to use the 8mm bolts that are supposed to help push the CVT cover off - it came off before I could bottom them against the clutch bell. Badda-Bing everything came apart as designed - and that big bearing stayed where it belongs, on the cover!
Sometimes you do get the bear.

So, perhaps if you don't wait too long you might find it easier to remove that CVT cover on your scooter, too.?

My LIKE200i CVT cover was a righteous bear to remove - and it was on there about 18 mos from it's birthday in China.....and the Kymco had pry tabs cast into the CVT - which I was afraid I'd break off & blow up my scooter. (hey, newbies figure there's a 70% chance they are about to break their pretty new scooter every time they get out a wrench)
Stig

[CROSSBOLT]

Nice job, Stig! I really like the numbers on the case to get the screws back in the correct holes. Did you shine everything up before you took the excellent pictures? That is CLEAN!

Karl

[Stig / Major Tom]

Nice job, Stig! I really like the numbers on the case to get the screws back in the correct holes. Did you shine everything up before you took the excellent pictures? That is CLEAN!

Karl

Thanks, no, no cleaning. Just blew it out with the PC aircan. Not much in there.
The aluminum cover is under a black plstic cover. Some take this off and paint the metal cover to promote cooling, I guess.
Best costume this eve (kids trick or treating) was a little girl in a box with gas balloons above her - holding a red battery candle light - she was "in a hot air balloon". Super costume!!
Stig

[blue]

Nice job.....the belt looks like something you can just flip over and use the other side..But not that's just for cooling the belt am I right.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Nice job.....the belt looks like something you can just flip over and use the other side..But not that's just for cooling the belt am I right.

Well, it's a tapered belt, like a Kymco. Thinner at the bottom, wider up top. No idea why it's shaped with the notches. Cooling might be the reason. I was told to remove the clutch bell and deglaze the 5 clutch pads.....which some say is a routine service need in order to eliminate the clutch chatter. But, so far I put that down to folks using improper take off procedure --- - I learned a long time ago that my LIKE200i prefers a robust throttle when moving off from a stop. Prevents any clutch pad glazing and the clutch chatter that comes with glazed pads. The Burgman gets the same treatment snd I have no problems to date....very smooth clutch engagement when I give it the beans on take-offs. No blueing of the bell apparent, so not abusing the clutch.
Lessons learned from the LIKE200i.....
Stig