16-04-15, 03:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-04-15, 03:32 PM by fazersharp.)
GOOD NEWS ---- for me anyway My nuts are off!!
After years of reading these posts about snapped studs I knew that sooner or later I would need to swap my 17 year old exhaust, although the exhaust is ok for now I have been soaking me nuts in Kroil for 4 months carefully getting behind the clamp with a syringe and a blunt needle, they are all back on now with copper grease and to 10NM except for the top inner one on the gear change side because I need a 150mm extension bar for my torque wrench.
I used a 1/4 inch set mostly but because I didnt have the 1/4 extension bar I had to use the 3/8 and 1/2 inch set but I just think you can too easily put too much pressure on with those sizes when undoing them nuts.
I would recommend you use a 1/4 socket set and you will need a 150mm extension bar for it as that last one - nothing else will fit between the exhaust and the hard rad pipe thingy, although I managed to do it up with a normal ring spanner at about 1/4 or less each turn.
I thought this the best place to tell my story as hopfully along with anutz story of woe it may help people in the future, it dose feel like a weight off my shoulders knowing that they are now ok as I would dread to have to go through what you have anutz. Perhaps it is a relevant detail to add that although the nuts have not been touched in 17 years the bike only has 18k on the clock and the last 14k of them has been in the dry only by me.
After years of reading these posts about snapped studs I knew that sooner or later I would need to swap my 17 year old exhaust, although the exhaust is ok for now I have been soaking me nuts in Kroil for 4 months carefully getting behind the clamp with a syringe and a blunt needle, they are all back on now with copper grease and to 10NM except for the top inner one on the gear change side because I need a 150mm extension bar for my torque wrench.
I used a 1/4 inch set mostly but because I didnt have the 1/4 extension bar I had to use the 3/8 and 1/2 inch set but I just think you can too easily put too much pressure on with those sizes when undoing them nuts.
I would recommend you use a 1/4 socket set and you will need a 150mm extension bar for it as that last one - nothing else will fit between the exhaust and the hard rad pipe thingy, although I managed to do it up with a normal ring spanner at about 1/4 or less each turn.
I thought this the best place to tell my story as hopfully along with anutz story of woe it may help people in the future, it dose feel like a weight off my shoulders knowing that they are now ok as I would dread to have to go through what you have anutz. Perhaps it is a relevant detail to add that although the nuts have not been touched in 17 years the bike only has 18k on the clock and the last 14k of them has been in the dry only by me.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.