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Gearheart
| Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 10:00 pm: |
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Was curious if anyone knew off hand what the nuts that secure the exhaust header to the engine are in size and pitch. They look like fine pitch 5/16 to me but when i acquired a number of said nuts they seemed to go on a half turn or so and catch. Normally I would just gleefully use a big driver and work them on but I have a great desire not to then have to replace the stud that the bolt mates too. So I was curious if in fact this was a metric fastener, that it was actually some other english size, or if I should just put some more elbow into it. |
Brucelee
| Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 08:31 am: |
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I had the same thing happen. Ultimately, I decided that it was the corrosion thing on the stud, so I replaced the studs and used new SS nuts and washers. Worked very well and hopefully that will solve the problem on a go forward basis. |
Elff
| Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 03:37 pm: |
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This title Sounded like a bad porno So I naturally clicked but I have nothing useful to add |
M1combat
| Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 03:52 pm: |
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LOL... Same here . |
Holling
| Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 04:28 pm: |
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My experience is that all the fasteners on the bike are standard size. Be careful, don't force it. |
Tomzweifel
| Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:24 pm: |
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Metric is standard, not english. |
12bolt
| Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 11:33 pm: |
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A wise man once said: tight nuts on your header is better than tight nuts on your chin. |
Knotrider
| Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 06:47 pm: |
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i have and will (hopefully) never have my nuts on my header. it sounds like you're playing with fire. are you at least engaging in this behavior behind closed (garage) doors? |
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