Re: Monolever fork nut stuck
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:01 pm
Well the nut moved with some heat...
The single-shock bikes have a different fork. The big top nut secures onto a gold inner thread, which is a part that pushes up through the tube.
This is all a long way of saying that the inner thread is spinning when I try to remove it. Clearly I am supposed to use a very large allen key to hold the inner, and a spammer to turn the outer. But this is hard when you have just one pair of hands.
So nothing is broken here - looking at the parts fiche I can see why it's doing what it does. It's just awkward.
Unless anyone can think of a solution, I'll go back to the idea of a dremmel and chisel to split the damn thing off.
The single-shock bikes have a different fork. The big top nut secures onto a gold inner thread, which is a part that pushes up through the tube.
This is all a long way of saying that the inner thread is spinning when I try to remove it. Clearly I am supposed to use a very large allen key to hold the inner, and a spammer to turn the outer. But this is hard when you have just one pair of hands.
So nothing is broken here - looking at the parts fiche I can see why it's doing what it does. It's just awkward.
Unless anyone can think of a solution, I'll go back to the idea of a dremmel and chisel to split the damn thing off.
