Size of tool needed for steering head nut?

30mm. Bought one for my crf100 a few years ago and found out afterwards that it fits the husky. I've also read that the flywheel puller is the same. I have one, just haven't tried it on the husky. Fun having dual usage out of oddball tools!

I ordered this one and it works perfect. Thanks for the tip.

No problem, Glad it worked out for you. I have had really good luck with the specialty tools made by Tusk.

So I am still re assembling my bike during the winter months and after getting the forks and front wheel on I noticed that with the Motosportz dampener installed I lost a significant amount of steering angle. The nuts for the handle bar clamps hit the dampener ring pinch bolt area about a 1/4" before the steering stops. Thing is, my stops were really far out to start and I was not happy with the lack of turn radius and had planned to run them in a bit but now I am perplexed on a solution. Anyone else run into this issue and if so what can be done if anything? I do a good amount of really tight woods rides and this isn't sitting well in my stomach. I would hate to have to remove the dampener and take a loss but I don't see much alternative here... HELP!

Take pictures. I'm creating a photo album of your projects so when I get around to doing them on my bike, I have a reference. You should change your name from "Reveille" to "Guinea Pig."

My solution was to carefully line up the nuts so the flats indexed with the clamp which yielded a few more millimeters of clearance and a few degrees more turning. My other solution was to go with a 10mm by 1.25 thread bolt and use a smaller nut. (stock is 1.5 pitch). This would give me a nut with a 14mm outside diameter instead if 17mm.

I bought the bolts and nuts and they have been sitting in my box for over a year because even though on the bench I saw a reduction in lock to lock out on the trail I never noticed it.

Post up the solution you come up with.

Thanks for your input! I may be over thinking it. I like the 14mm nut idea. Kelly has been working hard to get me squared away and it's much appreciated. He also mentioned a weld on post option but my welding skills are novice. I have the HDB bar clamp and top clamp so that limits other solutions too. I will tackle this in a couple hours when I get off work and post some pictures of where I am at. Where did you source the bolts? I picked up the 10mm x 110mm long bolts from a local Fastenal store. Nobody else had anything in stock. I guess I could just order some on the interwebs...

I have a local ACE hardware that has a really good selection of metric hardware. Several isles of it! It is one of the self service type with hundreds of bins. I find myself staring at the bins looking though it often and coming up with solutions I never would have thought of, or never knew existed.

Here are the pictures of the issue with the damper post mount as a reference. It sure looks like a smaller diameter nut would do the trick. I am having issues sourcing a 10mm x 110mm x 1.25 pitch socket head bolts. The last picture shows the distance or gap from the frame stop. As you can see I have the stops out quite a ways and it still isn't close. Also looks like I need to clean those connectors better...LOL

I fit grease nipples to all my bikes and pump grease in after each wash down...