sprocket locking tool

[cyndemgum]

Doing a chain/sprocket change today on my gsxr and made a simple device for locking the front sprocket. Cut off about 80 links of the old chain. Fold 3 links of the chain back on itself until it forms a 40mm eye on one end. Butt weld both sides of the 3 links. Cut a piece of steel tubing about the same diametre as the rear axle and about 100mm longer. Slide the tubing through the swingarm and the eye in the chain. Run the loose end of the chain over the top of the front sprocket and undo the retainer nut. Run the loose end of the chain around the bottom of the new sprocket and retorque the nut. Simple. Have a blast, Paul.

[PostmanPete]

With the chain on, I just use an axe handle thru the wheel, either above or below the swingarm to stop the back wheel moving!

[Greeny_SA]

Yeah, long handle shovel through the spoke's , Just another advantage of a 4 into one ,don't need to remove a can .

[pashnit]

Great idea Paul, I like it.

[Pommie]

electric rattle gun does the job for me

[cyndemgum]

Great idea Paul, I like it.

Thanks mate, should have made it about 30 chain jobs back. Anyone doing their own chains may be interested in the EK rivet master links for their 530 chain. It comes with 2 temporary spacer plates that are installed between the side plates. Simply press the side plate home, rivet the pins and remove the spacers. The spacers are shaped so as they don't interfere with the O-rings. Another job made even easier, Paul.

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electric rattle gun does the job for me

Yeh mate each to their own. I don't use rattle guns on output shafts, even with the box in neutral. Watched an apprentice rattle a nut off once and it picked up on the loctite. Fortunately it stripped the threads out of the nut and not the shaft. Torqueing it up with a rattle gun imo involves too much guess work. But hey whatever works, Paul.