Remove the Axle of a Street Bike

Video Transcript

"Hello my names Mario I'm here with Expert Village and I'm going to show you to change a chain and sprocket on a sport bike. Alright now that the bikes straight up we want to remove the axle. So what we got to do is release these chain tensioners, keeps the chain tight that way we can get the axle out. You want to make sure to get the right side so you don't strip the bolts because then you can't tighten the chain. Alright your twelve millimeter fits the thing perfect; you want to make sure you have a perfect fit on there because you don't want to strip any of these nuts on here. Because, and tightening it back up is going to be a lot harder. Just back this bolt off like that and screw this one in the space between the axle and the tensioner gets bigger. So now we need to remove this clip so we can take the axle bolt off. You just want to bend this down and then hit it out like this. Now you want to remove this axle bolt, you can use the crescent wrench, just an adjustable one, spin it to the left alright now just spin this to the left. Alright remove the bolt, alright now you just take a hammer and slowly knock the axle out. Come to this side and just pull it out, when you pull this out your wheels going to drop down. So now the axle removed and just go ahead and just set that to the side."