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

[S Young]

You are correct Art, it will spin, so what I do is press down on the air
tool to force the assembled shock to compress the internal spring to press
against the damper and let the air gun do its job, after two minutes (or
less) the allen bolt usually separates and the assembly comes apart and
thats on bikes 20-35 years old.

Sid



On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Art Lischer <alisch80 at mchsi.com> wrote:

> 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,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Sid
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Julian Solomensky <jsolo at solo-tek.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Find a threaded rod ~2ft long.  Go down to menards or lowes or ace
> > > hardware, find some nuts that fit a 27mm socket.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > You get the idea..  Worked like a charm here.
> > >
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