Q for K100 owners

A good idea is to use an air impact gun like the ones used by
type shops. Very good at tight nuts and all of the force is rotational
rather than the side twist that is inevitable with a bar or ratchet.
They will also remove the centre nut of a flywheel or pulley etc without
having to jam the shaft.

 

Yep, got one, used it many times, including 3 hours ago on this job.
But, if the socket is slipping round on the nut, then it makes no
difference.
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Time to talk to Mr SnapOn about a decent 6 sided impact rated socket.
Unless, of course, you prefer the application of brute force and pure
bloody minded ignorance by means of hammer, chisel and heat.

 

This may be one of the rare occasions when a Snap-on tool is worth the
money. Nowadays there's generally plenty of quality tools available
at a small fraction of Snap-on prices.

I don't. Frankly, if I can't get the front sprocket off I'll just
leave it there and put the new chain on it. It's not too worn...

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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Machine Mart do a reasonable range of impact sockets as do, I believe,
Halfords.

 

Sensible policies etc...

 

All my sockets are snap-on 6 siders.
Of course they are so effective that when you go spaz with a scaffold pole
you might actually snap the attached shaft.

 

How come, when I went in to buy 3 boxes of glubs, have I got a receipt
for the thick end of sixty quid in my hand?

Bloody shops, they should be banned. Or something.

 

heh. Dangerous place, is MachineMart.
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Rejoice!

The new 27mm socket fitted snugly. (The 32 didn't fit with the tab
washer in place).

So I rattled it with rattle gun. It was quickly apparent that this
was just turning the engine over (with it in gear). I threw the wheel
back in, located the chain across the sprockets, and then wedged the
handle of a hammer between the swingarm and spokes.

Rattled some more.

Put the socket on a breaker bar, slide a fork tube of the end of that,
and heaved. The bike lifted gently off the bench.

Rattled some more.

Strained with the bar some more.

Rattled. And rattled. And rattled....and it's off!

Fucking things.
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

I refer you to the story Pip told of us trying to get the front
sprocket nut off one of my ZZR1100s

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Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

The 40something rear sprocket retainer on my 996 defied even a 3 foot
scaffold pole. It was quite clear the hollow axle was going to buckle or the
wheel spoke deform.

Powerful stuff corrosion, sometimes.

 

How much pressure did you have, you need around 140 psi to get the gun
working properly.

 

Indeed. 10 bar is what most commercial compressers run at.
Some of the smaller DIY machines only manage around 7 bar and have
difficulty in driving professional tools.

You need a 10 bar compressor to put 7bar / 100 psi into a truck tyre.

 

I doubt it. Most industrial compressors work at 6 bar and it's the
flow that does the work rather than the pressure.

 

I know **** all about putting air in truck tyres but I make my living
from using pneumatic machinery in heavy engineering and you're talking
absolute bollocks. 6 bar and 110cfm is the industry standard and
anything above that is pointless.

Want to argue? Go to any power station, steel mill, shipyard or
foundry in this country and have a look at what pressure their
workshop air is regulated at and you'll find the compressors stop
filling the receiver at 95psi.

Pressure is worth nothing, it's the flow that counts and 10 bar is
pointless if you can't move the air through at a high enough rate.

 

See Andy's comments (and he's someone I often turn to for advice on
this sort of thing).

My compressor is only a home/hobbyist one, but it's done the job most
times - including this one.
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

<resists urge to engage in needless pedantry>

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden

Good call. You don't want to get anal with a bloke who's got latex
gloves.

 

we've a bloke here that sits at his desk flicking through the
MachineMart catalogue, practically drooling.