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Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:50 pm
by Baddie
Just checking this is the tool i need to remove front axle?
zx10r.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/MOTORCYCLE-FRONT ... 43a302c359
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:58 pm
by Ratmick
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
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:02 pm
by Wattie
dunno, mine takes a 30mm socket
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:58 pm
by Blurr
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
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:58 pm
by Blurr
That will work though
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:49 pm
by Baddie
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.
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:02 pm
by Blurr
get your own, you'll need it
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:04 pm
by TITANIUMBULLET
or the tightarse method is welding a nut to one end of big bolt
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:13 pm
by Blurr
TITANIUMBULLET wrote:or the tightarse method is welding a nut to one end of big bolt
have one of those to
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:28 pm
by Phil
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
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:37 pm
by hoffy
You can get them from kaneg..
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:54 pm
by Gosling1
TITANIUMBULLET wrote:.....or the tightarse method is welding a nut to one end of big bolt
......
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 !!
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:44 am
by the kid
Re: Hex tool
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:40 am
by Wattie
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
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:59 am
by Smitty
Ratmick wrote:..........
I have a set of 1/2" drive hex sockets, alas can't remember where I got them from...
Mick
I got mine from AllTools
