[wildcat14]

I've look in the service manual, as well as, searched online and can't find the answer. Since I'm going to have to buy a special wrench I'd like to get the right one. What is the size wrench you need for the thin nut on a foreman starter. A regular wrench is to thick but I assume most of you guys know that.

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[LedFTed]

send a year, model, and a picture. i used metric, plus had snap-on, tools. their wrenches, are thinner.. i guess also, if you are talking about the one that goes to the positive brush.,, you can hold the battery cable, while you loosen it. 6-pointers work the best..

 

[wildcat14]

It is the one you have to hold to loosen the top nut to take the battery cable off. It's a 2000 foreman 450es. I'm sure it's a metric size, as everything else is.

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[shadetree]

its 10mm. and yes..they dont give you much room to get an open wrench on the nut. your best bet is too grab the cable, CAREFULLY !!!..try to work the nut loose without breaking off the terminal to the starter bolt lead-in !. you do not want to spin the lead-in if you can help it ??!!.

 

[shadetree]

and you want to break the top nut loose..not the one under it !!!.

 

[wildcat14]

Understood. That's why I want to get a wrench to hold it.

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[fishfiles]

A tappet wrench is the thin version of a open end wrench ------ I think I would take a grinder and thin out the open end of the wrench -----

 

[fishfiles]

If you want to buy a tool that will help you on this problem and others in the future , this little set of mini Vise Grips have come in handy many times for me and will get in to that bottom nut of that starter stud

the ruler makes them look bigger than they are in the pic , the cigarette lighter is a good reference

 

[fishfiles]

Here is a really good deal on a 4LN , I have seen them new in the pack going on e-bay for $69-$85 a piece

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Irwin-Vise...485036?hash=item569c5c582c:g:gboAAOSwFqNZTMLX

 

[wildcat14]

I may go that route if those mini vise grips are thin enough. I would guess they would be used a lot more in the future than a thin wrench.

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[TBRider]

I had a similar situation and went to a pawn shop bought a cheap wrench and ground it down, cost me a buck for the wrench...

 

[misterclean59]

I had a similar situation and went to a pawn shop bought a cheap wrench and ground it down, cost me a buck for the wrench...

That's what I'd do. In fact I probably have three or four extras laying around anyway.

 

[LedFTed]

its 10mm. and yes..they dont give you much room to get an open wrench on the nut. your best bet is too grab the cable, CAREFULLY !!!..try to work the nut loose without breaking off the terminal to the starter bolt lead-in !. you do not want to spin the lead-in if you can help it ??!!.

the nut you are talking about, is ultra thin. i had good luck doing it the way shade suggested.. you may have to wire brush the threads, an use a drop of two of penetrating oil
use a good 6-point socket, hold the battery cable, and try to tighten in first, a hair, then loosen, back and forth, many times. if rust has set up, on the bolt, it does take a bit of elbow grease..

 

[oldmxrider]

I have a couple of the ground down open ends !

Did not want to take a chance of spinning that lead-in !

It happened to Me many years ago NEVER AGAIN.