Last week i was going to wack a new plug in the WR while I had it stripped down to remove the rear shock but couldn’t get the boot off. It hadn’t been playing up or anything but aas I don’t know the history of the bike I thought I would replace it anyway.
The WR has the coil as part of the boot I believe and so you first disconnect the electrical connector which I did but couldn’t pul the boot off.
I tried to lever under the head of it with a screwdriver but wasn’t game to put too much pressure on it in case it snapped off. As I was going riding the next day I didn’t want to risk doing damage so decided to leave it for the time being.
I am not sure if it is related to my attempt to replace the plug but when I went riding the next day the bike fired up fine first up but after it had warmed up it wouldn’t start on the button (mostly, it would occasionally). I had to kick start it most times which it did quite easily.
So is there a trick to removing the boot or do I just need to resort to brute force?
