Hmmm, can't get ST1100 swingarm nut/bolt to budge. Help please?

[pretbek]

DeanR and I are trying to remove the swing arm of my perished Hardley ST1100 Davidson, to get at the alternator.

Neither side of the swing arm pivot will loosen, not the side that takes a 17mm allen, nor the side that needs the "swing arm tool" that DeanR borrowed from Karen (thanks Karen).

Any ideas? Bigger hammer?

 

[Tom Mac 04a]

A bit of heat!?

 

[Mark]

Battery side has the 'locking ring'.
If you can't move it with the special tool I'd use a drift/punch and a big hammer.

 

[Fortunet 1]

A bit of heat!?

GOOD answer ! A bit of heat makes up for a bigger hammer by far. Light tapping with the heat frees lots of headaches.

 

[jvick98]

Impact wrench?

 

[pretbek]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I just tried the heat and tapping and will turn it again. It is hard to get leverage, the little teeth of the special tool keep popping out of the ring/nut.

 

[pretbek]

It worked! PB blaster, cutting out a notch of the frame so the screw driver would hit the ring at the perfect tangent, then heat and smacking the screw driver hard. It got the thing loose.