Honda Monkey Z125 2019

[Oxonamonkey]

Anyone know the torque setting for the rear shock absorbers. Cannot locate a workshop manual or find the manufacturer details. 10mm studs with 14mm dome nuts. Cheers

[stinkwheel]

The ones on my Honda H100 are listed as 22-29ft/lb.

However with a steel M10 nut and bolt, you are highly unlikely to overtighten it to the point of damage without really giving it some welly with an inappropriately large tool. Good and tight. As tight as you can do it without straining using one hand on a 17mm ring spanner should do the trick. Can't say I've ever used a torque wrench to fit a set of shocks.
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[Polarbear]

[Oxonamonkey]

Thank you for the reply. Well I have a torque wrench so might as well do it right, rather than the it will do approach. I mentioned in another post (because yes i have twatted up today and posted this question in too many places without actually realising) that Honda told me 20NM and a Honda website says 44NM. Just thought someone might actually know. But hey it's a world of that'll do's these days.

[martin734]

[truslack]

[Oxonamonkey]

I get your point. But you are assuming all hand/arm feel for tight is the same. If you are comparing experienced qualified mechanics feel against DIY feel then you are probably a long way out, I think most professional mechanics would use a torque wrench and if they don't then they are rolling the dice with their company and peoples lives. I did a lot of DIY mechanics as a teenager and know very well what feel is, you learn it from overtightening or undertightening and the shitestorm that follows. At this moment I would prefer to just have the correct setting and use it. Why else would i come to a Bike Chat Forum, might as well just have hand tighted it in the first place. Speaking of professional mistakes, I took my bike to Honda for its first service as you do to maintain warranty and they left the oil filler cap loose! Nice. Obviously he thought tightening by hand the same as a 10 year old girl would do was fine. Professional.
Also, it is a 14mm spanner, not as robust as a 17mm and very likely that a gorilla like me could strip it

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[Oxonamonkey]

I do not think it is unrealistic to expect professionals you pay to work on your machine to do the job by the book. I saw a biker at the side of a roundabout last year looking at his detached wheel, a onesided swingarm, i stopped to ask if he was ok, he had just picked his bike up from a main dealer after a service, they had not tightened the wheelnuts! I guess if they had torqued them as a matter of course they would remember the click and know they finished the job. Look everyone is entitled to their opinion and do things their own way and to berate others who prefer to do things correctly. I said thank you for the reply but still do not have the right torque setting for my bike, so a bike chat forum so far is a bit heath robinson and not helpful experienced fellow motorcyclists i hoped it would be. I have been riding 35 years on the road and off road previous to that. Please don't assume I am a novice who can be told it doesn't matter. My torque wrench is fairly new and I have no reason to think it would lie to me to such an extent that my wheels would fall off. WTF is wrong with asking for a torque setting that I cannot find from other sources. Why do you feel it necessary to have a little pop. You ride a bike i ride a bike, if i see a biker in need of help i stop and ask if he needs help. I don't ride by waving or stop and say he must have done something wrong. Of course I can tighten my shocks by hand, I have done. I also took the forks off and replaced the springs, which without the right holding tool is a bitch I can tell you but possible, maybe that information could be useful to someone. I was able to find torque settings for the front end, some of which is steel bolts into alloy. Never mind dudes. Thanks for nothing.

[stinkwheel]

Here, print this out and stick it on your workshop wall.

The vast majority of Japanese chassis fasteners will be grade 8,8 or equivalent. Disc bolts, cylinder/rocker bolts and calliper bolts may be of higher tensile stuff and need a more specific setting.

https://www.grampianfasteners.com/files/95b2c19b-1d29-4624-abdf-0813df2db3ac/Torque_Settings.pdf
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[1198]

[1198]

If you would care to spend less time chomping about people on the Internet and use it to do a bit of research you could learn, as I've just done, that according to the Honda Service Manual for your bike they need to be done to 29N/M.
Happy now?

[spottedtango]

Do you torque up your side panels up when you refit them?

[Riejufixing]

"No wonder the forum's dying".

[1198]

It would seem the O/P has either found out what he needs and not bothered returning or flounced off.
Was it something I said??

[Nobby the Bastard]

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