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Williamscottrobertson
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 12:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Dumb thing has me scratching my head. The rear hugger on the brake side has a torx cap bolt with a clamp holding the brake hose. How do you get it out? It’s right behind the passenger peg and frame. I can’t get a driver on it. I have slim ratchet wrench bit driver and it won’t get back there either.
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 02:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My hugger is held on with torx machine screws going into rubber well nuts.

Is it the same deal with your bike?
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Ratbuell
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 05:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I was just dissecting my wrecked S2 and am trying to remember. Did this bolt attach to the forward part of the frame? Or onto the swingarm? The one on the frame was just T-I-G-H-T; the one on the swingarm, I had enough room between my 150 rear tire and the bolt, to get a slim ratchet into it (a 1/4" ratchet that accepts screwdriver/drill bit style tools). I know it fit, because I tripped on the swingarm yesterday (removed from the bike in the process, after pulling the hugger), and the wheel is still in the swingarm.
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Hootowl
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 05:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The one on the frame? The hugger attaches entirely to the swingarm. It has to move with the swingarm. Maybe you were still delirious from the crash when you took it off? : )

Note to admins, badweb still still thinks "attaches" is spelled incorrectly.
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Akbuell
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 07:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Perhaps suspend the rear of the machine so the rear tire is off the ground, then remove the shock bolt at the swingarm and lower the swingarm enough to get at the fastener?

Or, with the shock bolt out, raise the swingarm?

Hope this helps, Dave
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Steveford
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 08:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You can do it two ways:
Use a ratcheting tie down to compress the shock enough to get clearance
or
take out the Torx bit and use a wrench on it.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 10:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

No, I was just distracted when I wrote the last post.

There's a brake line clamp on the frame.

The hugger attaches to the swingarm.

Duh.

Mea culpa.
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Williamscottrobertson
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 11:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yeah, sorry I’m slow to respond, just getting off work. Thanks for the ideas. I raised it off the ground, doesn’t go low enough. If I pull the bolt from the shock to drop the swinger, it looks like it is only a short distance from hitting the outlet on the stock pipe. Compressing it by sitting on it was no luck either. May try the torx bit and wrench. I thought for sure it would be designed to be removed with minimal effort and I was missing something simple. Guess I should add it’s an 00 with the newer style swingarm.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 11:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Oh, then I'd be no help. My bikes are early bikes, steel swingarms.
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Upthemaiden
Posted on Friday, July 27, 2018 - 09:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I just dealt with that a couple months ago. Horrible placing. I put a steel bar through the rear axle and used ratchet straps too line them up. Replacing them with something thatll let you use a screwdriver makes life easier.
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Williamscottrobertson
Posted on Friday, July 27, 2018 - 10:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I ended up removing the rear tire and ripping off the rubber on the well nut to expose the nut. Then i places the bit in the head to hold it and removed the nut. I will definitely be going back with a 1/4 hex bolt where I can put a ratchet wrench on it.
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