Righty Tighty. Or: a story of a wasted 90 minutes.
Fellow bullnose fans, please allow me a few minutes to tell you that we all do dumb shit.
Some back story, been slowly rebuilding / working on my 1985 bullnose 250, 2wd. Got new tires a few months back and had some scrubbing, and general sagging in the front due to old collapsing springs.
I set out to replace the springs, figured I would be done with both sides in 90 minutes or so.
First side, jacked up, on stands, off comes tire. Remove shock from mount and top retainer clip, lower jack to release spring. One nut to go holding the bottom of the spring in.
Gigantic ass 1 1/4” wrench in hand, I get to wrenching and it won’t budge, not even a bit. Neighbor comes over to watch after I ask him for some PB blaster which he didn’t have. Now i am LAYING into this wrench. I’m nearly 200lbs and I am kicking the shit out of this thing. Slowly turning it a few millimeters at a time. Progress!
I’m exhausted, it’s hot. I head inside to cool off, and then go to AutoZone for the third time today to grab some PB blaster. Come home,soak it. Go inside for 20 minutes.
Come back out and it’s ZERO better. Go ahead and soak the passenger side too assuming it’ll fight me just as hard.
Give it another 10 or so and get to donkey kicking the wrench. Literally everything I possibly can give it. All the beans. I stop, stare at it, and say aloud “holy shit, I’m going the wrong way.”
As you might imagine, it was a bitch loosening it after me tightening a half turn past 100 ft lb of torque from spec.
In the end, I got it. 3 hours for the first side- 35 minutes for the second.
TLDR: righty righty lefty loosey.