Rear axle nut size

[dontlikeoc]

Could somebody kindly confirm the size of the rear axle nut? My 24mm wrench head was too small. Is it 27mm, or something odder? I would rather get the wrench head of the right size without risking standing in return and exchange line.

[randy]

Rear is 27mm. You should have the wrench in the factory tool kit.

[trbig]

It's large adjustable (Crescent) wrench sized...


Tod

[fredintoon]

Lucky coincidence

Rear is 27mm. You should have the wrench in the factory tool kit.

Hi Randy,
that frail bent sheetmetal thing's only use is as a guide to the right size of wrench.
But dont, you are in luck. a 27mm wrench is the exact same size as a 1-1/16" wrench, perhaps you already have one of those?

[randy]

fred, i haven't had that wrench bend on me yet

tod, do those crescent wrenches come in metric sizes?

[foreda]

Crescent

Is that a metric or american crescent?

[dontlikeoc]

Factory tool kit! So used to not using the factory tool kit...Thanks!

BTW, the factory tool kit for this bike is too good to come with a bike.. I could almost visualize Yamaha engineers grinding their teeth to make the bike and tools better than BMW's.

[randy]

Factory toolkit

It works to loosen that nut if you use the 'extender' handle and one good stomp.

[trbig]

Metric or Standard...

You guys are idiots. Everybody knows it will work for any size... but you do have to get both a right handed and left handed one to either tighten or loosen those nuts.


Tod

[dontlikeoc]

well, one down side with using the factory wrench was that I could not use the torque wrench...

[trbig]

Don't worry about it. Those axle bolts are always German torqued anyway.. Gootentight. No matter what you tighten them to, you still have to get the cotter pin to line up... so there goes the torque spec out the window.


Tod