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Exhaust Nut Wrench.

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I agree with the exhaust tool, but use this one.
Works well and doesn’t take up much room.
A good 1/2” breaker bar provides plenty of torque and it locks into the fins very well, both the older larger fins and the newer small ones.

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The cast one is easier to use but takes up more space. I've had both... they both work. One or the other is essential.

Rob

Rob Frankham wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 4:40 am The cast one is easier to use but takes up more space. I've had both... they both work. One or the other is essential.

Rob

I ended up choosing the larger one as I have no intentions or inherent needs as of yet to remove the exhaust away from where the tool is stored.

Might not be a bad addition to any given toolkit for mobile emergency repairs, although I’m hard1pressed to think of an emergency repair that needs the muffler off. May just be my inexperience.

This was a beautiful spanner that I once owned. I'm afraid I let it go with my tool roll when I parted out. It was great for the rear wheel nut on the twin-shocks.
It used to be part of the Supplementary Tool Kit. 71 11 1 237 848
Now, it seems, BMW has removed them from the catalog. I can't even find a reference to Heyco manufacturing them or selling them. Too bad. Felt good in the hand.
If you see one for sale - snatch it up!

2nd from the bottom.

Rob wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 12:26 am This was a beautiful spanner that I once owned. I'm afraid I let it go with my tool roll when I parted out. It was great for the rear wheel nut on the twin-shocks.
It used to be part of the Supplementary Tool Kit. 71 11 1 237 848
Now, it seems, BMW has removed them from the catalog. I can't even find a reference to Heyco manufacturing them or selling them. Too bad. Felt good in the hand.
If you see one for sale - snatch it up!

2nd from the bottom.

oooh, those look really nice, too! Wonder if we can find something similar somewhere?

kmisterk wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 2:10 pm oooh, those look really nice, too! Wonder if we can find something similar somewhere?

You DO realize that the other tools are part of the stock tool roll? A coveted item. Still available new and used. Be careful of bid wars. They will happily out-bid new prices.

Here is my original tool kit, for the 1979 R65:

Rob wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 2:12 pm

kmisterk wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 2:10 pm oooh, those look really nice, too! Wonder if we can find something similar somewhere?

You DO realize that the other tools are part of the stock tool roll? A coveted item. Still available new and used. Be careful of bid wars. They will happily out-bid new prices.

Here is my original tool kit, for the 1979 R65:

Haha, yes, I have most of my bike's original tool roll, but I was specifically referring to the Heyco wrenches, as you said they are no longer made and those specific sets aren't referenced anyway.

I bought an aftermarket tool kit for my /2 from Vech at Bench Mark Works. For my single cylinder BMW, I decided to just get the pouch and went around to a number of pawn shops, especially those that specialized in tools, and found the wrenches I could use. For a motorcycle you need wrenches with different sizes on the ends in order to cut your total tool load in half. I think I ended up buying some unusual stuff, like the 22mm wrench at Northern Tools.

Kurt in S.A.