 Front wheel removal 02 TBA
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What are you guys using to remove the front wheel axle? I replaced my rear tire no problem, using normal metric wrenches. Tried to do the front tonight and find I need Large allen wrenches to remove the spindle nut and axle. Any ideas or shortcuts without buying special tools.
TIA
Steve
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Saddle Sore
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The right side is a 12mm allen and the left is a 19mm allen. I bought a set of 5 larger socket mounted allen bits at Advance Auto parts which included the 12 but only went up to 17. They weren't that expensive.... For the 19mm side, you can use a Craftsman (maybe others?) 5/8" sparkplug socket. You put the six-sided end in and use an extension through it to drive it... 5/8 socket
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Fe Butt
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You can use bolt heads that fit the openings. Just find a couple old bolts that the head fits in the axle and grab them with vise grips or get fancy and heat and bend the old bolts and make yourself a set of wrenches.
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Loquacious
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I used a pipe fitting that fitted.....and the other end had a hole for a smaller allen key... 
Gina
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Adjunct
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why would you need the 19mm allen wrench?....the axle can be pushed out without turning it.....
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To keep the axle from spinning while you loosen/torque it.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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19mm bolt with a couple nuts locked on the other end. Then use a socket on the nuts. A little more elegant than vice grips.
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Fe Butt
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well la di da 
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Loquacious
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Quote:
fir the 19 mm side use a Craftsman (maybe others?) 5/8" sparkplug socket. You put the six-sided end in and use an extension through it to drive it..
what a simple yet excellent idea 
Erwin
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Saddle Sore
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Wasn't mine...
I got it from someone else on here a long while ago. Just passing it on.
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Oil Expert
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Quote:
19mm bolt with a couple nuts locked on the other end. Then use a socket on the nuts. A little more elegant than vice grips.
Thanks for the tip. An M10 metric bolt seems to fit the 19mm side well.
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Saddle Sore
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Or you could succumb to the Siren song of the Snap-On truck as it cruises through your neighborhood . It's the ice cream truck for men .
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I repeat........"Why would you need the 19mm allen wrench?....the axle can be pushed out without turning it....." and it can be held with the 2 "pinch bolts" while either removing or torquing the 12mm side.....
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