When you are married with children, it's a special day when you get to ride with the buds.

5 miles into the trip, It felt like neutral in all gears. I freaked...I thought I lost the tranny. But I noticed the front sprocket nut was gone....and the sproket slid off the spline.

I walked back couple miles looking for it. No luck. Big bummer. (I found 5 bucks though)

How come it came off? There is a tab there that stops it from backing off. Are you supposed to use locktite?


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Same thing happened to me, I was hill shooting and thought i had hit neutral near the top of the hill. Luckily had enough momentum to clear it. Looked down and saw oil pouring out from my front sprocket. To this day i dont knwo what made it come off. They are usually so tight you cant hardly break them when changing sprockets. I would not use locktite, you will never get it off. I just bought a new tab thing and made sure i tightened the nut to spec. No problems since. Also hold the back brake when tightening that nut.

 

Holey buckets! Where was the oil coming from?

 

It was coming from behind the sprocket

 

I didn't see any oil leaking on mine.

Did you have to change a seal or something?

 

I assume the seal maybe got loose when the sprocket and the sleeve behind the sprocket came out. Havent had any problems since, been a fe months ago.