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Title: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: Nastytls on November 01, 2020, 11:07:14 AM
M8 touring, I need to remove the 7/16 bolts that hold the rocker covers on. I thought the TC was tight, but there's no way for me to get any wrench that I own in to loosen the bolts on the rear cyl.
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: Ohio HD on November 01, 2020, 11:36:13 AM
Rocker Box Buddy.
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: Nastytls on November 01, 2020, 02:03:34 PM
Those are a great idea. Thanks!

I ended up cutting a box wrench in half and bending it to fit that area but it was a PITA. I'm going to buy that for re-assembly.
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: chaos901 on November 02, 2020, 01:27:53 PM
QuoteRocker Box Buddy.

Interesting looking tool. 
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: les on November 04, 2020, 06:40:01 AM
Well Ohio, at least this time when you AGAIN forced me against my will to buy yet another tool, it wasn't that expensive.
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: chaos901 on November 04, 2020, 12:54:56 PM
QuoteWell Ohio, at least this time when you AGAIN forced me against my will to buy yet another tool, it wasn't that expensive.

Ain't that the truth.  I needed my wife to hold something I was putting back together the other evening and she was looking around at some tools laid out and asked "what this was for?" and I told her that one did a single bolt on the air intake, she asked about another one which I told her did a different bolt on the air intake. 
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: les on November 06, 2020, 06:44:40 AM
I just got my Rocker Box Buddy.  Based on the weight when I hold it in my hand, it appears to be made out of aluminum.  A magnet does not stick to it.

Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: PoorUB on November 06, 2020, 10:48:40 AM
Probably  aluminum,  less chance of maring the chrome heads on the cap screws.
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: les on November 06, 2020, 01:55:10 PM
I've never used an aluminum socket, on steel bolts, before.  Poor, is there anything thing to watch out for?  What's your experience using aluminum sockets?
Title: Re: Specialty Tool Needed For M8?
Post by: PoorUB on November 06, 2020, 03:42:20 PM
No personal experience, but aluminum tools exist for that reason, though most of use will never need them.