I have a 02 Road King and the rear rocker box was leaking so I figured it was the gasket. I was wrong, whenever 103 kit was installed the bottom rocker box was torqued so much it cracked the box and was leaking oil not the gasket at all. I noticed it was hard enough loosing the bolts. My question is how do I torque them when my torque wrench will not fit under the frame to torque them properly? I for sure don't want to repeat this project anytime soon. Any ideas on what special tool or adapter would be great.

 

Gonna need a dog bone or crows foot torque adapter

 

There's a special wrench for rockerbox covers -- real slim line ratcheting allen head (3/16), and J&P Cycles carries 'em (as do other supply houses.) It'll fit into spaces less than 1/2" deep, such as between your frame and the rockerbox top. Some of 'em have a square headed 'socket' type hole in the end of it, so you could insert a torque wrench. You'd have to figure the combined length of the allen wrench plus your inch-pound torque wrench, so as to properly compensate the torque reading, but that's just a matter of simple math.

I built something similar many years back when I needed more torque than my 1/2" TW could deliver. Welded up a 1/2" square socket to a 5/8" dia rod, turned the opposite end 90 degrees, squared it down to 1/2". The length of this new extension was exactly the same as the effective torque length of my wrench, so I simply had to halve the reading. They sell stuff like this for about as much money as a new torque wrench -- or at least they did when I decided to make one of my own.

 

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