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CB500/550 / CB550 cylinder head
« on: October 12, 2018, 10:43:24 AM »
I have been keeping all the cylinder head nuts constantly wet with penetrating fluid, since I got the bike a couple of weeks ago, as they all looked dry and rusty.
There seems to be a problem with one of the nuts, as a normal 12mm socket didn't grip the nut and an 11mm is too small.
A closer inspection revealed that the nut is rounded off, as the 12mm socked just spins on the nut whether trying to tighten or loosen it.
Apart from carefully drilling off the nut, are there any other methods people have successfully tried to remove stuck nuts???
All the other nuts have loosened off OK. TIA Bill W
There seems to be a problem with one of the nuts, as a normal 12mm socket didn't grip the nut and an 11mm is too small.
A closer inspection revealed that the nut is rounded off, as the 12mm socked just spins on the nut whether trying to tighten or loosen it.
Apart from carefully drilling off the nut, are there any other methods people have successfully tried to remove stuck nuts???
All the other nuts have loosened off OK. TIA Bill W