notabmw1
New Member
Feel completely dumb asking this, but trying to replace the front shoes on a 72 cb350 twin, and for the life of my cannot get the axle nut off to get in there. Couple things, is it reverse thread, or standard? I assume the only way to do this is, wrench on one side, and then I put on the other side a screwdriver/3 ft long pipe threw the little hole. I have bent 2 screw drivers so far and gave up. I gave it some pb blaster, put some heat on it, nothing.... I have the wheel off and I am sitting on it while trying to lever it off. This seems insane to me, but then again, the last time the brakes where done on the front was probably 20 years ago. Thoughts? Am I missing something really simple?