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HELP PLEASE LOWERING FLIP AND GRIND QUESTION

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515 views 3 replies 2 participants last post by  Chalky  
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I'm stuck and the bolts are too. For those that lowered their Warrior this way when you took out the bolts for the shock, swing arm and those rails did you have to hold both sides with a wrench in order to loosen the bolts? I cant tell if the bolt is just spinning on me or if its just that tight. I cant get any of the bolts to break free, even with a cheater bar. I'm doing this by myself and with only one good hand as my other is recovering from a surgery. I cant believe that this should be that hard. I tried to loosen the bolts with the bike jacked up on a bike jack, my thinking being that it was the weight of the bike keeping tension on the bolts. I'm stumped and I'm fresh out of cuss words.

p.s. non of these bolts are a crazy left hand thread and I'm just tightening them more am I ????
 
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chalkster, you got the bike up on the lift, thats good. you will need two hands though. get a buddy to help. If your doing the 'flip&grind' you do not have to remove any of the links, shocks, etc. Only the 3 bolts that run thro the link/blok need to be removed. You will need to hold the heads on oneside while you break loose and remove the nut on the otherside. these are aircraft/nylon insert nuts and take a little more work to get off. They are right threaded and do/should come off reasonably. I took mine off alone but did require a 1/2"drive breaker bar and back up wrench on the bolt head. Once you get these 3 bolts out the blok will fall into your hands. You may have to move the wheel/swing arm up or down a little.
I ground the link/blok a little at a time and cheked it twice b4 reinstalling. didn't want to remove anymore than necessary. with the wheel down the shok just clears the blok. With the bike of the stand under its own weight there is even more clearance between shok n blok. hey that kinda rymes. 'shok n blok'. sounds like something we
re gonna do in irok. cool...'shok n blok in iroc'!)
 
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