Well, now I am in a pickle. fork disassembly tools

[Art Lischer]

If you don't have something holding the top of the damper rod (ie the 
27mm nuts/rod assy or 1-1/16 socket/nylock nut assy) sometimes the allen 
bolt on the bottom will just spin the whole damper rod.
Art in DM

S Young wrote:
> G'Day,
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> You don't need any special tools to disassemble normal forks, keep the fork
> assembly together and use a allen key socket and air impact gun to loosen
> the bottom allen key before pulling the caps off the top.
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> On my web site I have pictures of the process for both my z1000A2 and my
> GPz900R. Once the allen key comes apart you can pull the legs apart and do
> the seal.
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> If you need to pull the dampers apart then you need to remove the caps, but
> it should take less than 20 minutes to replace each seal.
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> Sid
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Julian Solomensky <jsolo at solo-tek.com>
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>> Find a threaded rod ~2ft long.  Go down to menards or lowes or ace
>> hardware, find some nuts that fit a 27mm socket.
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>> Buy 4 of 'em.  Thread them to the rod at the very end, tightening one
>> against the other really tight.  Use of red locktite is recommended.
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>> You get the idea..  Worked like a charm here.
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