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Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:50 pm

Just checking this is the tool i need to remove front axle?
zx10r.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/MOTORCYCLE-FRONT ... 43a302c359

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:58 pm

If you'd like my opinion you need more torque than a 3/8" drive ratchet can offer, and the tightening is best done with a torque wrench.

FWIW my torque wrench that suits the axles on my bike (and previously my Kawasaki ZZR 600) is 1/2" drive and has a handle ~60cm long. My 3/8" one is dinky in comparison and doesn't tighten to the required torque.

I have a set of 1/2" drive hex sockets, alas can't remember where I got them from...

Mick 8)

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:02 pm

dunno, mine takes a 30mm socket :kuda:

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:58 pm

Yep the bug has a 22mm 1/2 inch front hex which I just bought from an engineering shop for about 15bucks (They had to order it in).

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:58 pm

That will work though

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:49 pm

Going to try and pick one up from auto shop tomorrow.

Or I'm going to see if i can just borrow one from kelen kawasaki penrith, as Ill need them to remove both tyres to replace with slicks.

How good is the Aussie Dolla to the Yank dollar, I'm guessing it up grade suspension time. :D

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:02 pm

get your own, you'll need it ;)

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:04 pm

or the tightarse method is welding a nut to one end of big bolt :oops:

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:13 pm

TITANIUMBULLET wrote:or the tightarse method is welding a nut to one end of big bolt :oops:


have one of those to ;)

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:28 pm

I got a fitting that goes in yer socket from MCA, was 20 odd bucks if I remember correctly, 4 different sizes catered for.

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:37 pm

You can get them from kaneg..

Re: Hex tool

Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:54 pm

TITANIUMBULLET wrote:.....or the tightarse method is welding a nut to one end of big bolt :oops:......


Even more tightarse - and in true Wasteland style.....is a 17mm bolt welded through the end of 1m length of 40mm waterpipe !!!!!

Oh yeah baby, I haven't met a front axle yet that can resist the tempation of this !!!!

It works way better than those dinky hex-tools. Besides me, its the biggest tool in the workshop !!

:kuda: :kuda: :kuda:

Re: Hex tool

Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:44 am

Gosling1 wrote:Oh yeah baby, I haven't met a front axle yet that can resist the tempation of this !!!!



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

We don't use these types of tools on the LC by the way :D

Re: Hex tool

Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:40 am

the kid wrote:
Gosling1 wrote:Oh yeah baby, I haven't met a front axle yet that can resist the tempation of this !!!!



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

We don't use these types of tools on the LC by the way :D


you might have to if Goz tries to "wasteland" it up a bit, maybe a pair of bull horns for the bars?

Re: Hex tool

Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:59 am

Ratmick wrote:..........
I have a set of 1/2" drive hex sockets, alas can't remember where I got them from...

Mick 8)

I got mine from AllTools :D
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