A special tool.....

[skidMark]

I just bought shiny new Snap-On Hex Sockets only about $75 each

EACH? per socket or for a set of metric then another 75 for a set of imperial?

If $75 a piece. whats your job and are you hiring.

[classic zed]

EACH? per socket or for a set of metric then another 75 for a set of imperial?

If $75 a piece. whats your job and are you hiring.

I think that was each, I bought them a while ago, I run a garage and work on cars and bikes so I use them all the time, you cant beat quality tools

[sAsLEX]

you cant beat quality tools

I think it was Motu who took a 15 odd year old socket back that had been hammered in the workshop and had given up the ghost, lifetime warranty though and he got a new one!

[cowboyz]

but surely that would have been the end of its life. therefore the end of the warrenty?

[classic zed]

I think it was Motu who took a 15 odd year old socket back that had been hammered in the workshop and had given up the ghost, lifetime warranty though and he got a new one!

True enoigh, I have a 13mm spanner which I had used every day for over 12 years, one day I picked it up and noticed the chrome was chipped on the end, Snap On replaced it without question

[Patch]

i made some up for the gixxer

what did was get a big nut/bolt that fit in the hole

then weld the nut to bolt, and then all ya do is bang the bolt head in the hole, get a spanner and lossen/tighten by the nut, and front wheel comes out

aka




The above is a fancy looking version of what i did, i got welder out instead, and it now sits in my toolkit on bike, for if anything happens on road side also

which pannier bag do you keep your front axle stand in? or is that fancy nut there to keep the other nut company?



Fark letting any of you country numpy monkeys near anything mechanical I own. 22mm allen key indeed!

[Devil]

For you Auckland fulla's. You can just visit Waitemata Hydraulics and buy a hex head socket. Bought one for the triumph, $20, 1/2" drive. Works great.

[merv]

I'm seeing the story here though, Jim is quite right you'd expect the toolkit supplied at least to have means of removing the front wheel and he's saying that his Honda does.

That's why I always jokingly call Suzukis parts bin specials - the lowly paid workers at the factory just keep grabbing parts out of bins no matter which model they are putting together and it doesn't matter whether the bits go logically together or not or whether the toolkit is right and matches the bits. Hell to sort that out you need decent designers but you don't get them on what budget sales can afford.

[TLDV8]

is required to remove the front wheel on a sv1000.


FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who's the prick who decided to put the biggest mutha of an allen key (~22mm) on the end of the front axle. How many people have allen drivers that large in their tool kit.


Now I'm pissed.

In their wisdom they made it a pain (compared to a 27mm 6 point socket before) and the weight difference between the newer internal hex axle and the older SRAD/TL/Hayabusa axle is almost nothing (it was wider also)
If the SV has the same 214mm fork spacing as the TL,the weight saving would be zip.
I machined a alloy hex but was lucky enough to have the machine tools to do it.

[Fatjim]

Yeah thats the other thing. Every time I have to use my front wheel stand I have to adjust it cause the SV is wider than the VTR.


Farking Suzukis!!!!!!