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Old 12-23-2011, 11:53 AM
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I am trying to install a rekluse and I need to get the clutch nut loose. Is it reverse threads, meaning lefty, tighty; righty, loosey??? From what I have read (and maybe I'm reading it wrong) it is regular threads. I have tried to break it loose with an pneumatic impact, no go; an impact wrench that you hit with a hammer, no go; I have tried a ratchet with a cheater bar, a very long cheater bar and it ain't budging! I see where the nut needs 60nM of torque when installed and I checked trying to loosen it with a torque wrench and it was quite a bit more than the 60nM.....

I'd really like to get this job done today, so I can ride Monday. Somebody help
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:09 PM
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Looks right handed, (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey).
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:16 PM
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Looks right handed, (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey).
that is what i was thinking...normal threads... i had mine on and off about a dozen times last year on a revlock dyna ring install...
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:16 PM
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Looks right handed, (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey).
Thats the way I read it also...
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:18 PM
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Crank (drive gear) is Left hand threads. Clutch is right hand threads.
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:24 PM
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Crank (drive gear) is Left hand threads. Clutch is right hand threads.
Just had mine off last week, righty tighty, lefty loosey!

Nut on my counter balancer was stuck tight like that, finally had to carefully cut it off with a dremel.
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Old 12-23-2011, 01:22 PM
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Alan,
Normal threads. We had the same problem with the 300 Race we used at the 24 Hour Race. It took a whole bunch of us to loosen it. I reported this to the production manager. Hopefully this won't happen in the future.
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I am trying to install a rekluse and I need to get the clutch nut loose. Is it reverse threads, meaning lefty, tighty; righty, loosey??? From what I have read (and maybe I'm reading it wrong) it is regular threads. I have tried to break it loose with an pneumatic impact, no go; an impact wrench that you hit with a hammer, no go; I have tried a ratchet with a cheater bar, a very long cheater bar and it ain't budging! I see where the nut needs 60nM of torque when installed and I checked trying to loosen it with a torque wrench and it was quite a bit more than the 60nM.....

I'd really like to get this job done today, so I can ride Monday. Somebody help
me.....please!?!
I'd give it a bit of heat. Do you think it may have been put on with thread lock?
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Thanks, gentlemen! I will try again....I don't know why a Spanish bike has German torque on it...."guten tite"....
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Use lots of heat and your impact wrench.
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