Front pully nut

Hi,

I have a 2002 softail and i'm looking at changing the front pully from a 32t to a 34T. Does anyone now what size socket I need. I't looks like 1.7/8".

Cheers

[michael_dinwiddy]

Harleyhog usually has that sort of info try giving him a PM

[Phil]

Originally Posted by Bighorn

Hi,

I have a 2002 softail and i'm looking at changing the front pully from a 32t to a 34T. Does anyone now what size socket I need. I't looks like 1.7/8".

Cheers

And that is what it is. Easyway to make a tool is to cut an 1.7/8 socket in half & weld a piece in the middle.

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Yer Mrs' chopping board and a hole saw for the donut.;)

See: http://www.harleyhog.co.uk/beltinstallpage3.htm

Thanks all,

But where do i get hold of a 1.7/8" socket? I've tried holfords, no go, and other shops, i.e, machine mart. I thought about geting the new lock nut plate supplied with the pully, welding that onto a bit of 2" pipe, grinding the edges off and welding an old 1/2" socket onto the other end so i can tourque it up. What do you recon?

Does anyome know what difference the 34T over the 32T will make?

Cheers,

[kiwidave]

you need to try a good old-fashioned tool/hardware shop. It'll cost around £20 in all probability but it should last quite a few decades.

Us cavemen like to recall that ''bigger in the front and smaller in the rear'' is the ideal proportion ahem ahem and that's deffo handy to remember.........

bigger front sprocket/pulley equals lower revs at highway speeds

smaller rear sprocket/pulley equals lower revs at highway speeds

Go too radical on this and you lose acceleration, mind...

Originally Posted by Bighorn

Does anyome know what difference the 34T over the 32T will make?

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[Kiwi]

Jims sell a really nice tool that does this job properly

[banquo]

It's getting hardfer and harder to get hold of Imperial tools here. No local toolshop and halfords has dropped them altogether (although I did get a nice 5/8" Professional combination for 10p, as a result).
You can get Imperial Tools from Snap-On, or these people do them too:
http://www.imperial-tool.ltd.uk/stor..._listItems.asp
or
http://www.toolbank.com/product.cfm?...2012FD449zou4f
Mind you, they are quality, and not cheap, and you would have to be brave to take your expensive socket and cut it in two to set in the extension piece. I like HH's solution better, as a box spanner's pretty cheap, if you can get hold of one.

Suggestion: as this is a tool that many members of the club would need, and would probably need only once, why not get on to our revered tool hire clerk, and see if one of the Jims ones could be purchased for members' use..?