Compensator Nut
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Compensator Nut
Looking for a little quick help here. I have all the tools and the new torquing procedure, along with the telltale knocking. I have gone over her with a fine tooth and found nothing loose and I have adjusted the clutch so I'm down ot the comp. nut. It's an 04 EGC. here is my question, Do you have to pull everything out i.e. the clutch basket and remove the primary chain etc. or do you/can you simply pull the nut and clean the threads, apply the red loctite and re-torque per the new procedure? Any help and/or insight is GREATLY appreciated!
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Okay, I have it off and under normal circumstances it may have been considered tight but for a nut that was supposed to be torqued to 150 ft/lb it came loose easier than I thought it would. I didn't remove the tensioner but I did drop it to the bottom. Blkbagger may have answered my other question as to whether anyone who has done this shimmed or faced the nut or just reassembled it after cleaning.
BlkBagger, for facing it did you just use a grinder and take it down the .030?
BlkBagger, for facing it did you just use a grinder and take it down the .030?
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Well that was fun! Nut is back in place. Mounted my grinder in the bench vise and got out my spark plug gap guage. The .030 is just about the little flair on the end of the nut. It must have been loose because getting it up to 150# (or 75# + 45 degrees) was much more difficult than getting it off. The stop block I made out of some exotic hardwood, that barely took a dent on removal, got pressed onto the clutch spocket. That little problem cost me a double divot out of a knuckle, lol. Cleaned it all up real good and checked to make sure the threads were still in tact, all was good! Now I'll wait the 24hrs for the loc-tite to cure and clean out the little tiny chips of wood that were created by getting the first block out of the sprocket. Then I'll button up the primary cover, put the fluid back in, and test her out. Thank you everyone for your help, as always HD Forum members answered the call. Thanks again!!!!!!