


I need to hold this splined shaft from turning while I torque this nut to 87 ft/lbs. The Kawasaki special tool is NLA. I am completely stumped. OE tool photo included.
Any ideas?
Edit: Solution in comments



Any ideas?
Edit: Solution in comments
I’m missing so much riding time because of this. Kawasaki makes a special tool for it but because the bike is 45 years old it’s very difficult to find and very expensive if you find one. I need something that will actually hold it, I don’t want to mar it up with channel locks. Even if I tried, I don’t think I could hold onto it while I crank the torque wrench that hard.
I hooked up ISTA yesterday for something completely unrelated. I cleared the errors (none of them anything special) and unhooked it. Drove the car around for a few errands and parked it. Now I go to leave for work at 4 am and the car is so dead it can’t unlock the doors. Battery is at 3.6v.
I have always suspected the Amazon ENET cable I have been using for ISTA because it doesn’t seem to fit the OBD2 port very well (too tight) but unless it somehow fried the ECU I don’t know what could have happened. The cable has been working well thus far, not to mention the car was perfectly fine when I parked it yesterday.
Anyone have any ideas?