victorb
Junior Member
Decided to change the oil in my R6 forks. I removed one fork from the bike, opened the cap bolt, pulled the assembly out. Following the R6 service manual: "Step 1: Loosen nut" - this nut in the picture below (red arrow):
So I put an open end wrench on the nut, and start turning. The preload adjuster starts turning with it.. uh right.. I grab a wrench, put it on the preload adjuster nut (blue) to keep the preload adjuster in place, take the open end wrench to the nut and start pulling.. nothing.. pull a little more.. nothing.. the damn nut is not budging one bit! I kept trying harder until I noticed that the preload adjuster nut was starting to take a beating due to the amount of force I was applying to it.
So my questions is: am I missing something, or should I just keep going at it until it breaks free? Since this is all threaded on a small diameter rod, I don't want to bend it by applying brute force if there is a trick I am not aware of..
So I put an open end wrench on the nut, and start turning. The preload adjuster starts turning with it.. uh right.. I grab a wrench, put it on the preload adjuster nut (blue) to keep the preload adjuster in place, take the open end wrench to the nut and start pulling.. nothing.. pull a little more.. nothing.. the damn nut is not budging one bit! I kept trying harder until I noticed that the preload adjuster nut was starting to take a beating due to the amount of force I was applying to it.
So my questions is: am I missing something, or should I just keep going at it until it breaks free? Since this is all threaded on a small diameter rod, I don't want to bend it by applying brute force if there is a trick I am not aware of..