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Fork tip

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 5:12 pm
by WDCO42
Hello there,
Don't know if you had the same problem when rebuilding your fork ( 93'Bullet), but I had troubles to have the stud going out the hole in the fork end. So, here is what I did : thread the stud with a 10mm tap, long enough to support a bolt, that I tightened with a spacer (in the "bush removal manner"), and that was that, finished in 5 mn for the 2 legs. Accessoirely, I read somewhere that when you do a fork drain, you have to push the stud to drain the whole oil. Is it true (I'm more familiar with the CO parallelogram fork..) ? In that case, the thread will permit me to center the famous stud.
Claude

Fork tip

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:25 pm
by PeteF
Excellent tip!

Fork tip

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:00 pm
by bogie

Hi
I had the same problem when I worked on my forks in the winter. All I did was heat up the end of the fork which expanded the
alloy end, the center bolt just went straight through. Sorted!
Regards Ray.