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1971 CB500K0 Resto 3/71 VIN 1000896
hairygit:
I know Jamesh, but Ash had obviously stripped the wheel before mentioning it in the thread, and I very much doubt he'd have wanted to put it all back together just to get the retainer out!
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JamesH:
:-) was only joking. He isn't hanging around on this one. Good tip though thanks for sharing.
AshimotoK0:
Yes you, are correct, I have removed about a dozen 'standard' retainers in my time from just the hub. With hindsight on this .b*st*rd ..should have left wheel intact. Still took an extraordinary torque to remove though. Dunno if the one on eBay that the recently appointed custodian of Dave Silvers museum sells would be man enough for the job. Think I did mention in an earlier post that I wished I had left the wheel intact. No sign of any threadlock BTW just staking.
Quote from: Oddjob on December 09, 2015, 11:26:02 pm
I find that a good shock will sometimes start them off, once you have them going things go a lot easier. Try whacking the tool with a heavy hammer to see if you can shock the threads loose. Sometimes you need to do this in order to break the thread locks grip.
As far as I recall the rear retainer is not staked, unlike the front one.
Yea FBH I guess. Problem is, and it's my fault entirely, I stripped the wheel first not realizing what a b*st*rd these are to remove. Think I will weld a bar to the old sprocket to get a good purchase on it. Stripped the alloy retainers from about 12 Honda hubs, without the proper tool, over the past two years and never ruined one yet. But these are something else.
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AshimotoK0:
Well you can see from the photo it was staked and don't forget this is VIN less than 1000 so Honda may have changed assembly methods early on but also there was evidence of a PO removing the retainer to replace the bearing . TBH the bearing is probably fine but there is no way I am rebuilding a bike of unkown history and reusing wheel bearings. I did admit that I should have left the wheel intact but that's the thing with forums, you try to do a warts and all log and in doing so embarrass yourself ;D ;D ;D
totty:
It was staked on my 550K3, but I have no way of knowing how it left the factory.
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