which tool in standard tookit fits 10mm engine sprocket cover fl
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:50 pm
The 10mm socket on a 3/8" drive is small enough to do my '06 sprocket cover. I think that a 1/4" drive wrench is too small for routine use on the KLR, especially when using blue loctite / permatex on everything. I'd also consider sticking with 6-pt sockets so there is less chance of rounding highly torqued bolt heads.
Don R100, A6F
--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "exidyboy" wrote: > > Hello again from Melbourne, Australia. > > I am fitting a new chain and sprockets to my 100,000Km plus Tengai. About the only routine maintenance on the bike that I have trouble doing with my somewhat agricultural Sidchrome 1/2 inch drive socket set is accessing the top 10mm flange bolt to remove the engine sprocket cover. > > A 1/2 square drive 10mm socket interferes with the channel in the cover and can't approach the bolt head square on. > > While pondering whether this provides a good excuse to finally get a nice 1/4 or 3/8 drive socket set (or a tube spanner, 1/4 drive T-handle like the folding one from Motion Pro, 10mm nut spinner etc) I became curious about which tool in the standard toolkit, which I don't have, is supposed to be used to remove this bolt as the parts list fiche shows the only candidates as: > > 92110-1131 TOOL-WRENCH,BOX,12MM > > or > > TOOL-WRENCH,OPEN END,10X12 > > I can't imagine you could fit a 10mm open ended spanner onto the bolt so is the 12mm box wrench (tube spanner) actually 12mm on one end and 10mm on the other ? > > I hope you find this question as fascinating I do> > All the best, > > Mike >