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So, this is only my second fork seal job. And, from the first one to now, the only thing I am unable to get done is removing the axle nut. I cannot (and the manual does not say) seem to remember if it is lefty-lucy/righty-tighty or if it is lefty-tighty/righty-lucy.

A simple answer would be greatly appreciated. The boys went to Tennessee so I can't just ask one of them.

Thanks!!!

Right-on dude!


Right "ON"

Thanks. I was just going to delete the post 'cuz I already figured it out!!!!

I think he may have a bike to ride once I'm done...whether it's his own or if'n he has to ride mine til I finish his.

Works same as a jar. Pretend it's a mayonnaise jar and you are trying to remove the lid. Of course, use a wrench, wench! Ha! (I crack myself up!)

If you had paid attention, ski, you would have seen that this wench already wrenched it. Yeah, I'm laughing, too.

skipro3 wrote:Works same as a jar. Pretend it's a mayonnaise jar and you are trying to remove the lid.

Hummmmmmmmmmm, if you first hit around the edge of the nut with a kitchen knife would the nut loosen easier???

Yes, it will. It's called an impact driver. Ever hear of that smarty pants? Ha!! I usually use a mallet and give the wrench a whack or two if it doesn't want to budge.

Fork job on hold. Top nuts don't want to budge. Allz they want to do is strip out. Pissed? Yes, I am.

You loosened the top clamps first, yes?

Yeah. Got one of the top nuts off and the entire fork apart and cleaned, but the second top nut just COMPLETELY stripped out. Well, maybe not COMPLETELY. There is still a nub or so left somewhere on the damn thing.

I was really hoping to have it all done by the time the ol' man gets home tomorrow. Guess I will have to wait 'til Tues. to get a new one.

I must say, though ... I do love learning this stuff and getting all greasy and whatnot in the process!!!

Stripped? How'd that happen?

You lefty loosied it...and it just spins?

..in which case...it was stripped/x-threaded on last assembly. (Wonder if the triple was what held it together?) It's pretty hard to strip something LOOSENing it. Not impossible, but when that happens it's more likely a case of a steel fastener into aluminum. The fastener comes out..and brings all the aluminum threads with it.

Is it the cap? Or the fork tube?

Or...just maybe you got the cap out about 1/2"..now it just sits and spins? That's 'cuz it's unthreaded, but the rod is holding it snug to the tube. Lightly compress the fork then back the cap off. The last couple of threads may be damaged, but it will still work just fine. Be extra careful threading a cap like that back into the tube.

KDX Butterfly wrote:I think he may have a bike to ride once I'm done...whether it's his own or if'n he has to ride mine til I finish his.

Uhhhhh......

You are working on HIS forks? Not your forks? I hope he's an understanding fellow, seeing as you just screwed up the tubes by stripping them somehow. Didn't anyone ever tell you that wimmen should keep their biscuits in the oven and their buns in bed? Ha! Tell us how it goes when He gets back and finds out what you did.

it was stripped/x-threaded on last assembly

FYI, I never touched them

He's back. And, he is an awesome man. Maybe that's why I married him. No. The bolt on the very top of the fork (you know .... the little six-sided thingy.) I am a wimmen so I don't know what you minz would call it...
THAT is stripped. It is round instead of six-sided. Well, now it's round cuz even the hubby couldn't get the little **** to budge!

Oh, well. Another day in life of.

Oh yeah, Ski. There is nothing wrong with a wimmen who can make fresh, homemade biscuits from scratch without a recipe, who knows where her buns belong, AND can play with her man's tools without him complaining about it.

Sounds like you didn't destroy the fork tube then, just that cap. I wonder why it's so stubborn though. I've almost done that by not loosening the upper T clamp bolts first. Both are aluminum so that shouldn't be an issue. Still, it's a lesson for me; put anti-seize on those threads too!

So, what are you two going to try next to get it off?

Heat/cold? chisel? how about a photo too.

'Stripped' doesn't refer to a rounded off bolt head/nut. The correct terminology would be 'boogered'. Hence..the off-tracking.

I'll bet'cha $$ to dog turds it doesn't have anything to do with being stuck. It DOES have to do with someone using: 1. A 12pt. socket (on an impact driver without loosening the top clamp bolts) 2. A crummy adjustable wrench

You can square the edges with a file, use a SIX-sided tool that fits.

Heat? There's an o-ring on that cap....

At this point I think they are trashed and need replaced. I don't think they are worried about a 50 cent O-ring!

They are $2.54 at RonAyers.......

It's not the damage to the o-ring that I was thinking about...it was cleaning up the mess that a melted o-ring would leave behind that I had in mind.

The cap? $33 But...it comes WITH an o-ring!!

Neat!!

$33? It was $60 something when I checked...

oops...I was looking at an 'H' KDX part..and that's not what's at hand, huh?

Actually, I have no clue what bike we're talking about..... My point was that a CAP is pretty spendy..but it DOES come with an o-ring. Maybe that's the same with other brands, maybe not.