removing/installing wheels

   Today an order for my tires came in.  I managed to get the front
wheel off and I took that in and got a nice, new tire.  The back tire
is a pain to get off, though.  It is an axle with a bolt on one end.
You have to turn the axle while holding the other end at the bolt.  It
just doesn't want to come off, though.  I twist and twist and it moves
around, but it's not making "progress".  I asked the guy at the
CycleGear and he recommended tapping a bit on the axle with a mallet,
and/or using Liquid Wrench on the bolt.

  Also, the front wheel tends to "squeak" a little.  It sounds like
steel wool running over metal.  "Whish" type sound.  Is this normal?

  I'll have to figure out how to use a torque wrench.  I got the front
axle bolt on fairly tight and gave a rachet a few good raps with a
mallet but I want to be sure.

 
Magnulus wrote:

Your brake disc will do that.


It's probably only required to be 30 or 40 ft. lbs. Or, if your wrench
is a foot long, imagine pushing on it with 30 to 40 lbs. of weight. Not
much!

Hopefully you didn't crush your hub-sleeve with the mallet trick. Get a
torque wrench soon.
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Rayvan

   I tried the rear wheel again and it's a no go.  I can't get the thing
off.  It just turns and turns, and won't come out.  I give up because
I'll probably strip the bolt head if I keep messing with it.

 Magnulus wrote this on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:04:40 -0800.  My reply is
below.


Uh, you mean you can't loosen the axle nut on the axle because the
axle turns in the frame, and the axle head is round, and you can't get
a wrench on it.  Right?

There is, of course, a hole cross drilled through the axle on the nut
end.  The nut is, no doubt, a castellated nut and should have a cotter
pin through the hole in the axle locking it in place.  You have to
take that out.

I've already said too much, but I'll forge ahead anyway.  Geraldine's
axle head is round but has a hole cross drilled through it, too, a
little larger than the one on the nut end.  I have a punch the size of
that hole.  I stick the punch in to give me a handle to keep the axle
from turning while I work on the nut end.  You could use a crappy old
worn-out phillips screw driver.

During reassembly, be sure to put the cotter pin back in the nut after
you finish torquing it down.

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.. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA
.. 1979 Honda Goldwing GL1000 (Geraldine)
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 On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:41:13 -0600, Chuck Rhode


Just as I thought must be the case.  

Open your eyes, Magnulus.

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