- Joined
- Feb 5, 2005
- Messages
- 8,537
- Age
- 77
- Location
- Kingman, Arizona
- Bike
- 2000 ST1100 ABS TCS
- STOC #
- 004
Great to hear ya finally go it. Have to believe someone confused inch lbs with foot lbs or something similar on last assembyl.
No one should ever have to resort to pie. It should be done willingly and right out of the gate! MMMmmm... Pie!Did you have to resort to pie?
I wonder if a lazy shop tech shot it back into the tube with a Snap-On impact and didn't care what the torque value was set to. As shallow as those threads are on the aluminum cap I'd be surprised if they didn't strip out if grossly overtorqued into the steel tube though, so its a bit of a mystery. Perhaps corrosion played a part in it. Given the non-effort normally required for this task its a bit surprising to hear multiple people having this problem.Glad to hear to got the cap loose! Can't wait to see what you find. Sounds like it wasn't cross threaded and Magilla Gorilla transposed some numbers and then did ft-lbs. Could O-rings have somehow sealed it shut?
Yup, that's got them moving.Time to break out the air impact driver methinks from reading above. If that doesn't work, I don't know what I'll try.