BuellOnYamaha
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Hi: In removing the rear drive unit to replace a leaking oil seal, I had to wrench hard to remove one of the acorn nuts. so hard that the nut was almost too hot to touch from all the friction when it finally came off. I see the first thread or two on the bolt is stripped -- guessing a previous owner cross threaded it when putting it on and just muscled past it on a second attempt. I'm ready to reinstall and feeling a little nersvous about this. Thought of trying to hack saw off the last 1/18 inch of that bolt to amputate the ruined threads, but that feels kind of imprecise for an acorn nut with a precise depth. I'm not kean on opening up the pumpkin assembly to try and replace the bolt -- not sure what will shake loose in the process and i'm not even sure how to order that part (but that's probably a solveable problem). Should i just pull up my big boy pants and wrench it on, or does anyone have a hack for dealing with stripped threads?
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