I was TQ'ing the steering stem nut on my 2011 Rocker C, and had a sharp decrease in TQ right as I was anticipating the click at 70ft/lbs. Immediately tried to remove it, and with turning and some prying under it, managed to get the nut up about 3/16 of an inch. I obviously can't inspect the steering stem threads until it is all the way off, but from what I am seeing, and feeling, it seems I stripped the nut. But it doesn't want to come off. As a last resort I'll drill and split the nut on both sides, but was hoping you gentlemen had some less invasive ideas I could try first..?

 

Well I'm going to try and freeze the nut and see if that'll shrink it enough to grab, and if not drill and split I guess, since no one else seems to have any other ideas..

 

Get a nut splitter cheap at HF. If they have them big enough should make fast & much cleaner work of it.

 

I'll check into that, thanks. For that 1.5" nut it is beyond the normal nut splitters, and the few I saw that are big enough, are really spend, and probably wouldn't fit in the neck area anyway. Looks like I'll do it by hand tonight

 

What kind of torque wrench? Is it calibrated?

 

Snap-on and yes, I am in the aviation field, so everything I own, is calibrated, and I even double checked it afterwards... Not that any of that helps removed stripped hardware....

 

So I froze the nut and I got it to come off another turn or two, but that was it. So I split it, and unfortunately found that the steering stem was damaged as well. So ordered new nuts and a new lower triple tree w/ stem.