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Flying Duck
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 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: Fun with forks |
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Since my donor RS I bought last summer is/was an SE, it's got those nice shiny chromed forks. I plan to disassemble them, clean them out, drop in some new Race Tech springs I have and put new fork seals in them before I install them on the LT.
They have 60k on them. Aside from the springs and seals, anything else worth replacing them while I'm in there?
Would it make sense to move the 30k cartidges over from my LT? Not thrilled about this idea as those are still in nice shape and I don't really want to pull those forks apart unless there's a compelling reason.
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mnb
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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With all this fork work, if you happen to have a spare stanchion, I need one for my right fork...
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| mnb wrote: | | With all this fork work, if you happen to have a spare stanchion, I need one for my right fork... |
Do you think you're in Europe or sumpin' with all that fancy vocab?  Over here call 'em fork tubes or uppers.
FYI: All of the forks I have are in decent shape so my tendency is to selll them in pairs and not part them out. Too much work to get those stupid circlips out too. I dread that task. 
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Jim
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:49 am Post subject: forks |
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take a look at the bushings - just replaced them on my bike with just under 50,000 miles on it. Bushings might have lasted awhile longer - figured while everything was apart it was worth replacing them.
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mnb
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| Flying Duck wrote: | | mnb wrote: | | With all this fork work, if you happen to have a spare stanchion, I need one for my right fork... |
Do you think you're in Europe or sumpin' with all that fancy vocab? Over here call 'em fork tubes or uppers.
FYI: All of the forks I have are in decent shape so my tendency is to selll them in pairs and not part them out. Too much work to get those stupid circlips out too. I dread that task. |
I called em that cuz that's what they're called in the parts fiche...
Well, a new fork tube is $300. And I can probably buy a pair of used forks for that, perhaps even less, so....
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Adrian
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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Not really the fork, but the plate which holds the forks together where the brake pipes split could probably do with pulling apart and cleaning/repainting.
Also...When I did my forks recently I could not get the front wheel spindle back in on both sides. Lots of head scratching later I realised that you have to do bolts on the plate (mention above) loosely first, make sure you can get the spindle to fit OK, then bolt up good and tight, well 2nd F torque, as in:
1st F - finger tight
2nd F - fairly tight
3rd F - f***ing tight
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Adrian wrote: | Not really the fork, but the plate which holds the forks together where the brake pipes split could probably do with pulling apart and cleaning/repainting.
Also...When I did my forks recently I could not get the front wheel spindle back in on both sides. Lots of head scratching later I realised that you have to do bolts on the plate (mention above) loosely first, make sure you can get the spindle to fit OK, then bolt up good and tight, well 2nd F torque, as in:
1st F - finger tight
2nd F - fairly tight
3rd F - f***ing tight
Have fun
Adrian |
Even if you could get the axle thourhg with the fork bridge installed first, I don't think you'd want to. I think you want the axle inplace before you put the fork brdge on to ensure proper alignment. (This only applies if you've lossened the frok brdige - not when you're just putting the wheel on and have not messed with the fork bridge.
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86 custom K100
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Shoganai
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: Re: forks |
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| Jim wrote: | | take a look at the bushings - just replaced them on my bike with just under 50,000 miles on it. Bushings might have lasted awhile longer - figured while everything was apart it was worth replacing them. |
+1 on the bushings 
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Jim
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:33 am Post subject: fun with forks |
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Drake - check the diameter of the Race Techs - if they're 29mm you'll need to get the flanges on the pistons turned down. The stock springs are 30mm.
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