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I'm just glad we got an update with a solution.
Everything's better with more lube.
Everything's better with more lube.
Holy F@#$ Rear Wheel Nut
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Speaking of lube. I've used this copper based anti-seize, as non-ferrous metals and ferrous metals won't bond or dry and have radically different heat-expansion rates making this ...., the .....
Another trick I didn't see mentioned now that it doesn't mater... I've put ice inside the axle, and VERY gently with a VERY small torch heated the nut, DING, they come apart fast.
NOTE: Doing this getting your steel up to 600F, you've de-tempered whatever you got hot and now you can throw it away or use it as wall art. Only get it warm to touch and it'll be good after.
Another trick I didn't see mentioned now that it doesn't mater... I've put ice inside the axle, and VERY gently with a VERY small torch heated the nut, DING, they come apart fast.
NOTE: Doing this getting your steel up to 600F, you've de-tempered whatever you got hot and now you can throw it away or use it as wall art. Only get it warm to touch and it'll be good after.
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My bikes are in Florida and like I’ve said previously, have never had this issue. Whoever tightened that nut must have been drunk. That is ridiculous.
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With the threads being dry I'd think there was some type of corrosion element to it but I don't doubt that someone went full ham with an impact to tighten it, totally clueless to how tight they had it.
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Heat it with a heat gun for a couple of minutes.
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Someone hasn't been reading. 
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It's not a "Known Ducati issue" it's a known ....... with a rattle gun issue..... A bit like the underpaid low IQ .......s that change your car tyres and just spin em up till they're tight. The nut is supposed to have some anti seize on it and be torqued correctly, with the safety clip in place it will be fine and you will have a fighting chance at getting it off again.
DO NOT be tempted to under torque it, if the nut comes loose the safety pin will likely stop it coming all the way off and you losing a wheel, or your life, but what can happen is the soft Alloy of the wheel chafes on the 4x drive pins and makes them oblong fiucking the wheel completely
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Plan to torque probably stop just short of 230nm line Up holes for the pin call it a day.
Once season starts that wheel will be off a few times a weekend For fresh rubber. Thanks for all the advice.
just to recap
patience
long bar
steal socket
patience
heat
patience
PB Blaster
patience
nuclear powered air gun
patience
wine
if I would have known it was going to get so cold in Georgia I would have left it outside last night because it would have frozen it’s nuts off!!!!!
again thanks.
race Plastic goes in the Booth next week
suspension is in with my guy.
Christmas is starting to shape up.
Once season starts that wheel will be off a few times a weekend For fresh rubber. Thanks for all the advice.
just to recap
patience
long bar
steal socket
patience
heat
patience
PB Blaster
patience
nuclear powered air gun
patience
wine
if I would have known it was going to get so cold in Georgia I would have left it outside last night because it would have frozen it’s nuts off!!!!!
again thanks.
race Plastic goes in the Booth next week
suspension is in with my guy.
Christmas is starting to shape up.
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