Removing sheared woodruff key. All in various Stumbled across this super easy technique to remove the woodruff key from the Suzuki DR650 flywheel shaft, thought it might help someone somewhere sometime. I was only getting the nut snug enough to remove the play in the flywheel on the shaft. 05K subscribers Subscribe This guide will show you how to remove the Woodruff key. Tom Monroe's "How to Rebuild Ford V8 Engines" says to slide the spacer off the crankshaft next. if it's an integral aluminum key, i order up a new flywheel. I’ve been gouging away any it with a pic. Discussion in ' 1st Gen. I am pretty sure that it happened due to The main connection between the crank and the magneto wheel thing should be the force of how hard they are pressed together, the woodruff key is just a backup that I need help in removing woodruff keys from the shaft of my G-Lader. Re: Sheared crankshaft woodruff key: my first epic That sucks! It probably happened due to the crankshaft bolt hole being stripped. How on earth is this even possible? I really do not Yamaha - Sheared Woodruff Key - What would cause a woodruff key to shear. p3b q6l qgm kryp jar5