Murphy's Law or is it just me?

Liquifire 4/6 · Post by **Liquifire 4/6** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:08 am

Something occurred to me yesterday as I was changing the wear rods on my bro's Cyclone. His leaf springs are somewhat sacked out which makes getting at the front stud more awkward than usual......not enough room to use a ratchet. On both skiis, the center and rear nuts came off easily (loosened them up a bit with a wrench, then spun em off with my fingers. But of course, the front ones were super stiff all the way which meant using an open end wrench to the bitter end on the long fine thread bolts. And this is by no means the first time this has happened. It seems that anytime I'm faced with removing an item held on with three or more bolts (such as a speedo angle drive), the two that are easy to get at always come off easily.......and the one that's in a stupid location is always the stubborn one. I just had to vent.

Deere or Nothin' · Post by **Deere or Nothin'** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:18 am

Hey Pete, I don't mean to change the subject or anything but, Feb. 23=Minnedosa and it looks like Mar. 1=Rapid City. Also, did you put actual bought wear rods on, or did you make your own? I just use 3/8 rod. I shape it and then stick on some short bolts.

Post by **Matt** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:25 am

Not just you. There is always one stubborn bolt, that causes everything to go completely wrong.

Caleb55 · Post by **Caleb55** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:45 am

It never fails, usually the stubborn nut will cause some blood and cuss words as well.

JDT · Post by **JDT** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:46 am

Sometimes the stubborness is not in removing it but rather in trying to put it back in.

A couple of days ago it took me half an hour to get one bolt in. I was changing out a track on a 74 X4 Special. The bolt in question was the top one on the right hand side for the bearing retainer plate/speedo drive. If anyone has ever done this I bet you know what I am talking about. If you need to do this someday the trick is to put the top bolt in first rather than last.

As for the wearrod bolt under the spring they usually snap off for me with about 3/4 of a turn. But the ones that are just tight I back them out two turns and then reach for my sawzall. I cut the stud off between the ski and the rod.

But if you have pulled the retainer pin on the front shackle to inspect or change the cushion pad you will have open access to the nasty nut.

Todd

_FIII · Post by **_FIII** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:15 pm

I started using stainless steel nylock nuts on my wear bars. Very easy to get off next time. I used to work with a guy who's last name was Murphy, we usually blamed him for stuff like this and I'm sure you can pin this on him too Pete!

MuskyBear · Post by **MuskyBear** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:05 pm

Use the blue wrench. (cutting torch)