How tight rear axle?

[pzkpfw]

(Yes, another question more or less about torque...)

Adjusted my chain last weekend. Well over due, and the bike felt so much better afterwards.

Had to un-do the axle nut with the spanner from the bikes own toolkit.

Couldn't get enough leverage with the supplied handle, so ended up gently tapping the wrench with a mallet to un-do the bugger.

The nut was on so tight the washer between it and the swingarm had been visibly dented in where the nut touched it.

Last time the thing would have been off was when I got the bike shop to put the new tyre on.

I didn't whack the wrench with the mallet when I did the nut back up. I just did it as had as I could with the toolkit wrench and its' supplied handle.

Q1: Was that just ridiculously tight? Or was that normal?

Q2: Is that tight enough now? Should I be worried its gonna come lose?

(Yes, I did replace the split-pin with a new one.)

Cheers,

[The Stranger:Me]

(Yes, another question more or less about torque...)

Adjusted my chain last weekend. Well over due, and the bike felt so much better afterwards.

Had to un-do the axle nut with the spanner from the bikes own toolkit.

Couldn't get enough leverage with the supplied handle, so ended up gently tapping the wrench with a mallet to un-do the bugger.

The nut was on so tight the washer between it and the swingarm had been visibly dented in where the nut touched it.

Last time the thing would have been off was when I got the bike shop to put the new tyre on.

I didn't whack the wrench with the mallet when I did the nut back up. I just did it as had as I could with the toolkit wrench and its' supplied handle.

Q1: Was that just ridiculously tight? Or was that normal?

Q2: Is that tight enough now? Should I be worried its gonna come lose?

(Yes, I did replace the split-pin with a new one.)

Cheers,

The rear axle is often quite tight, the XT is 75 ft-lb and the Fazer is 109 ft-lb.
Too tight and you can may overload the bearings by crushing the crush tube/s. Too loose and it may allow excessive play in the cush drive and way too lose obviously may of course be very bad.

Personally I would torque it to the correct torque with a torque wrench.

[AllanB]

Personally I would torque it to the correct torque with a torque wrench.

What he said.

[James Deuce]

What he said.

That's what we're talking about.

[pzkpfw]

Personally I would torque it to the correct torque with a torque wrench.

Yeah, that's what I generally prefer.

Just at the time (still don't) I didn't have a socket big enough to use with my torque wrench.

[The Stranger:Me]

Yeah, that's what I generally prefer.

Just at the time (still don't) I didn't have a socket big enough to use with my torque wrench.

You got mates don't ya?

I don't so I have to have my own shit.

[James Deuce]

Yeah, that's what I generally prefer.

Just at the time (still don't) I didn't have a socket big enough to use with my torque wrench.

22mm?

I'll bring it to work tomorrow.

[pzkpfw]

22mm?

I'll bring it to work tomorrow.

27 mm.

(!)

[James Deuce]

I lent my 27mm socket to a "friend".

Has anyone found it?

[pzkpfw]

Snap!

(Wasn't me...)

[CookMySock]

Just at the time (still don't) I didn't have a socket big enough to use with my torque wrench.

Just buy one. Not expensive.

Steve

[pzkpfw]

Well, yeah. That's the plan.

I might even buy two - one for Jim2.

But then, at that time, the tools I had available were the spanners in the bikes own toolkit, and those were my experiences.

Thus the questions.