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[bpalmersheim]

Okay, so today I bought the chrome starter solenoid cover.  Easy upgrade, or so I thought...

After getting the bolts out (covered in wrinkle paint), I tried to pull the factory cover off only to realize that the factory cover has been encased in wrinkle paint and fused to the starter.

This is ridiculous!

I thought about using a razor blade to cut through it, but it is several millimeters thick and then I could maybe only get two sides of it.  Then I would be forced to twist or slowly bend it off and I know that it will cause the paint to flake off the starter.

How am I supposed to get the old one off without breaking the seal and having all the wrinkle coating flake off the starter?
 
Has anyone else had this issue?

[Boatman]

I can't help you out, but it's amazing how some of these easy looking projects aren't so easy.   

[scagnetti]

I just did this mod and it seems everything I've done to my bike always has some kind of annoying situation like this. I ended up going to the other side of the bike (primary side) and putting the blade of a flat screwdriver against the edge of the solenoid cover ,which stuck up ever so slightly from the housing, then as gently as I could I pushed toward the other side and the cover popped right off. Hope this helps, just be careful the screwdriver doesn't hit anything.

[110tHunDer]

 
b, mine was sorta tough to get off, too.  There's a gasket between the cover and the starter housing that I think is holding it on (restricting it) more than the paint.  You should be able to get it off if you wiggle it back and forth while pulling on it. 

[bpalmersheim]

Got it off, I had to use a straight screwdriver and a hammer and lightly tap around the inside seam of the cover.  It was the paint that sealed it shut.  I will see if I can get some good pics of it.  The paint was so thick that it flowed into the gasket as well and sealed the cover onto the solenoid. 

[bisounours]

Mine cover !

Jacques

[SOKOOLJ]

I can't help you out, but it's amazing how some of these easy looking projects aren't so easy.   

No doubt!!! These things always turn into "projects". The alternitive is >$60/hr for someone else to do it.