Removing front wheel

[stu1969]

Hello again
I need to remove my front wheel for the first time and need some advice please.
I am stuck on removing the axel. I don't have the proper tool but I have made one out of 22mm bolt and several nuts. I can't shift the axel at all!!!
My questions are, how tight is it supposed to be? (Stupid question), what direction should it be undone?
Cheers guys
Stu.

 

[flatdog]

Hello again
I need to remove my front wheel for the first time and need some advice please.
I am stuck on removing the axel. I don't have the proper tool but I have made one out of 22mm bolt and several nuts. I can't shift the axel at all!!!
My questions are, how tight is it supposed to be? (Stupid question), what direction should it be undone?
Cheers guys
Stu.

 

[ducatiparts.110mb]

Anticlockwise - same as most bolts.

Have you got pinch bolts on the bottom of your forks? Are they slackened off?

 

[stu1969]

Yeh mate, pinch bolt removed. Struggling to remove the "quick release axel" !!!!!!

 

[casperfelix]

Yeh mate, pinch bolt removed. Struggling to remove the "quick release axel" !!!!!!

I was tempted to be sarcastic - but stopped myself as sometimes I've sought simple advice on this site which others may have laughed at, but which was important to me.
So ...... my experience of new BMs is that they use very liberal doses of 'loctite' or similar at the factory on many of its bolts which sometimes make them feel locked on very tight. I'd be surprised at them using it on the front axel, but you never know. in any event the axel should only be torqued on to about 30nm (not very tight) and it's screwed in clockwise. So, if you've released the axle clamp bolts it should move quite easily - if its not 'loctited'.

 

[wust588]

Assuming "Loctite" has been used, gently warm the area with a hot-air gun or hair drier.
Someone else might have murdered the thing tight.

 

[Mr K]

Plusgas.

The axle may have seized onto the various spacers.

 

[rick]

I would use Copaslip when reassembling to make it easier next time.

 

[tosh23]

use your gurth luke