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Postby Baddie » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:50 pm

Just checking this is the tool i need to remove front axle?
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Ratmick » 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...

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Re: Hex tool

Postby Wattie » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:02 pm

dunno, mine takes a 30mm socket :kuda:
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Blurr » 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).
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Blurr » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:58 pm

That will work though
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Baddie » 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.

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Re: Hex tool

Postby Blurr » Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:02 pm

get your own, you'll need it ;)
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Re: Hex tool

Postby TITANIUMBULLET » Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:04 pm

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

Postby Blurr » 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 ;)
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Phil » 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.
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Re: Hex tool

Postby hoffy » Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:37 pm

You can get them from kaneg..
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Gosling1 » 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 !!

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Re: Hex tool

Postby the kid » 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
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Wattie » 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?
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Re: Hex tool

Postby Smitty » 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...

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