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Message: [QUOTE="reepicheep, post: 1422044, member: 104942"] Got them back, look great. I found another trick that I figured I should post somewhere that Google can find it for the next person... this 1998 KX 80 (like lots of other KX-80s) had a clutch basket nut that was impossible to get off. Absurdly tight. Even with the impact wrench and heat, I was getting nowhere. The trick was finally to "pre load" the drive train... so I had a piece of rebar through the rear sprocket to lock it from the wheel, I put the bike in 5th gear, and used a screw driver to push the inner clutch basket to where it took up all transmission and chain slop. That finally let the impact wrench do the job. Before then, it was just flopping the shaft around, and not delivering the impact to the nut. The energy from the impact wrench was just shaking the drive train, not loosening the nut. This looks like its going to be a fun little bike... For what that's worth, it should help somebody. [/QUOTE]