chain sprocket clips?

[yes se-r]

ok so i just put my renthal sprockets on..and bought those clips that go over the rear nuts..how do you tighten them without annihilating your sprocket?

im refering to those silver things..they are the locking mechanism and i tried prying one of them with a pair of needlenose and it was just digging into my $55 sprocket X(

help?

 

[calcium12]

looks good...idk about tightening it though

 

[Liquid5soul]

im pretty sure you just bend it up againt the nut man.

 

[yes se-r]

yea i was trying to bend them but they are harder to bend than you think..just trying to make sure there isnt a correct way that im not seeing and im screwing up my sprocket

 

[yes se-r]

ttt no straight answer yet

 

[Awk08]

anytime i do those type of bend over locking type washers,i just get a flat screwdriver started under them and lightly tap it up with a small hammer, you can also get them started bending a little before you put them on, and yeah its prolly gonna mark up that pretty sprocket, is that aluminum???, shoulda bought steel ones!!!!
i never had much faith in aluminum sprockets, but you'll never see the marks on it while blasting thru the trails at 40 mph
and wheres your brakes, i dont see a caliper in the pic???

 

[ruthless_one3k]

I like to use a pair of long handle pliers. Put one side of the jaws on the tab and the other on the opposite side of the nut. A hammer and a screw driver works too. Remember, its not going to be all pretty once the chain starts going around it anyways.

 

[yb200]

why couldnt you just use some lock washers and lock nuts and ditch those clips

 

[Blasterb0y794]

Or you could ditch the clips and get some lock tight like I did. Holds up great and make it look alot clean/better.

 

[yb200]

Or you could ditch the clips and get some lock tight like I did. Holds up great and make it look alot clean/better.

beat ya to it..........

 

[splitd]

i used a hammer and chisel myself. ya just gotta angle the chisel right and they should bend real easy.

 

[yes se-r]

yea im just gonna angle a screwdriver i guess, awk: i bought the renthal sprockets, didnt pay attn to what the material was to be honest, and my caliper is being worked on aka i cant get the damn pads out of it lol.

as for the few that said "get rid of them blah blah" no, i just bought brand new clips so im using them lol

 

[1997blaster]

i took mine off does it matter ?

 

[yes se-r]

its a locking mechanism, the vibes and rotation can cause the nuts to back off and bye bye sprocket.
guys this stuff is here for a reason lol they didnt just go hmm lets put a few useless things (besides tors) onto this quad that we dont need!