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itacud 04-Nov-2003 16:18

U-Tool
 
Can anyone recommend a way of undoing cylinder nuts without having to purchase the £170 ducati U-Tool?
Or where I can get one for about £50?

nelly 04-Nov-2003 16:59

you can use a crowfoot spanner on you wrench. Not the "perfect" way, but it does work OK.
My first tool was a spanner with a 1/2" socket welded in the center, then an allowance made on the torque setting for the extra leverage.

itacud 05-Nov-2003 13:42

Many thanks Nelly. Have ordered some.
What sort of compensation did you give for torque using the crowsfoot spanner.

nelly 05-Nov-2003 14:19

On the crowfoot, it's negliagble. The ones I have are 25mm from drive centre to stud/nut centre so that's 2.5%. Thats within the tolerance of 5% that Ducati specify, so I'd set the wrench exactly and tighten it up as normal.
the spanner I used to use, with the socket welded in the centre was about 100mm centre to centre so that was a different story ;)

itacud 13-Nov-2003 09:10

Thanks Nelly, But what make of crowsfoot did you use?
I still can't manage to get the ratchet over the crowsfoot to turn the nut. Looks like I'll have to weld a bar to it...

Shazaam! 14-Nov-2003 20:13

Here's an inexpensive clever design using a socket welded to a box-open end wrench.



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