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[Wheaters]

There's no reason that a piece of 1/2" hexagon bar won't fit, as I suggested....

[Wheaters]

The reason 13mm won't fit is that it is too big! 1/2" is 12.7mm.

[Lord-Toady]

Its not as deep as I imagined so I dont think I would need such a long tool after all.

[Lord-Toady]

I was reading an old post on the classic motorworks forum about leaking Enfield forks and a guy on there said that if the forks were leaking form the top to make sure the tubes have not become unscrewed from the casquette. I taped a long reach 10mm 1/2" drive allen key into a 10mm socket on my wrench and used that to check them after undoing the two bottom bolts that also hold the indicators on it seems my right hand fork tube was very loose and needed about 15 turns until it started to tighten. I tightened both up nice and tight and also replaced the two lower bolts with some 8.8 yellow zinc plated ones that I have had for a while hopefully this will fix the leak! I think the right fork must have been all leaking into the casquette and running down both.

[Lord-Toady]

Just a bit of an update, after tightening the forks into the Casquette properly the other week and cleaning up with a rag I now have fork bottoms that stay dry even after a long run of several hours. This is great news and I no longer have fork oil all over my boots, trousers exhaust and all over the bike.



So if your forks appear to be leaking from the tops and inside the casquette on an Iron Barrel it could be the same issue.