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[Anders F. R.]

I am about to change the fork legs, springs, bronze bushes and oil seals on my 1953 Model G. Hitchcocks Motorcycles surprised me by suddenly supplying brand new, English made fork legs, parts that has been unavailable for many years. Great, thank you Hitchcocks! Anyway, two questions: .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 1. Mr. H recommends fork oil SAE 20 for Bullet 1954 - 196x. I suppose this recommendation will be OK for my G also. The forks are almost the same. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 2. If I can get the old fork legs off only by undoing the pinch bolts in the fork head and the "part connected to the fork stem", I don't NEED to dismantle the complete fork bearings, do I? I probably will anyway, it's been 10 years since I renewed that one, so an inspection and a "CLA" will probably not be wasted time. But may I leave it in place? .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Regards, Anders F. R.

[Mark M]

Anders, I think you answered your own question! I always have a look at the "next step" of any partial dismantling that I do, just in case something is wrong or as an early warning of work in the future. In the case of the forks they get are simple but do a lot of work so I'd have a look anyway. REgards, Mark (About to start reassembly of the front end of the Constellation project!)

[simon]

If its the same as the early Bullet set up the top end of the forks are held in the nacelle with cottered draw bolts with a bush that pinches the top of the tubes. Just undoing them often doesn't release them and so I suggest you carefully drive out both the cotter and the bush. You will be delighted with the effect of the new springs. I mentioned on someone else's post that I had my ones re tempered and it radically improved the bikes handling particularly under braking.