Absolutely cannot get compensator nut off
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From: Honah Lee
I use a 3/4 drive impact. I do step the compressor up 150 just like you mentioned. Do not put a 6 ft bar on it. I lock sprocket with a hard delrin step block but Harley recommends a bar wedge.
You can use a long bar but use an extension on socket drive. Carefully set a heavy jack stand up close to breaker bar. That way you are driving it around on compensator but only pushing down at jack stand.
Watch that heat. You need to take a hard look at the alternator rotor magnets when you get it apart.
PS.. I do this with bike on wood blocks under frame. If I had to resort to bar, I sure would be on blocks with someone straddling the front wheel. Not on a jack.
You can use a long bar but use an extension on socket drive. Carefully set a heavy jack stand up close to breaker bar. That way you are driving it around on compensator but only pushing down at jack stand.
Watch that heat. You need to take a hard look at the alternator rotor magnets when you get it apart.
PS.. I do this with bike on wood blocks under frame. If I had to resort to bar, I sure would be on blocks with someone straddling the front wheel. Not on a jack.
Last edited by Jackie Paper; Aug 27, 2021 at 06:11 PM.
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From: connecticut
I use a 3/4 drive impact. I do step the compressor up 150 just like you mentioned. Do not put a 6 ft bar on it. I lock sprocket with a hard delrin step block but Harley recommends a bar wedge.
You can use a long bar but use an extension on socket drive. Carefully set a heavy jack stand up close to breaker bar. That way you are driving it around on compensator but only pushing down at jack stand.
Watch that heat. You need to take a hard look at the alternator rotor magnets when you get it apart.
PS.. I do this with bike on wood blocks under frame. If I had to resort to bar, I sure would be on blocks with someone straddling the front wheel. Not on a jack.
You can use a long bar but use an extension on socket drive. Carefully set a heavy jack stand up close to breaker bar. That way you are driving it around on compensator but only pushing down at jack stand.
Watch that heat. You need to take a hard look at the alternator rotor magnets when you get it apart.
PS.. I do this with bike on wood blocks under frame. If I had to resort to bar, I sure would be on blocks with someone straddling the front wheel. Not on a jack.
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Joined: Dec 2016
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From: N/A
No updates to give. Picked up a 3/4 breaker bar, but Ive gone all over town looking for a 3/4 drive 6pt 1-1/2 socket and found zilch. Ill have to order it, but Im heading out of town for a month and a half this Sunday, so itll have to wait. Thanks for all the advice.
The nut on my compensating sprocket was an absolute bitch-and-a-half to get off. I ended up using a propane torch to heat the nut, and then used a six foot piece of pipe to give me leverage on the breaker bar (I had a Jims locking bar wedged in between the two sprockets).
Good luck.
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From: PEI
Where I'm at, in 2015 it snowed solid from feb 14-march 15th, 16 feet was the official total and drifts were much higher. Everything was closed for almost a month and the news was telling kids not to touch the power lines as you could walk right to the tops of the poles.
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From: Snow Hill, NC
Where I'm at, in 2015 it snowed solid from feb 14-march 15th, 16 feet was the official total and drifts were much higher. Everything was closed for almost a month and the news was telling kids not to touch the power lines as you could walk right to the tops of the poles.
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A cold nut in that snow would result in significant shrinkage, no way to the a nut off there.
This thread is spinning out of control!!
Now we have to wait a month and 1/2.....
This thread is spinning out of control!!
Now we have to wait a month and 1/2.....