When I bought my bike I was aware of slight pitting on the fork stanchions ,although mainly above the area of travel I decided to sort them.
I was going to hard chrome the stanchions on the bike but got a set of hard chrome pattern ones from the dreaded E B*y.
Seemed good quality so set about overhauling the forks. Left one was full of fresh bright red atf, whilst the right contained about 250ml of grey sludge.
Typical pattern parts the fork tubes are thicker walled so the yellow piston seal on the damper rod needed trimmed by 2 mm to fit correctly and then the standard springs would have been too tight in the tubes .
Luckily I was fitting uprated linear springs which fitted fine, after that the legs went back together perfectly with new 10w fork oil so out tomorrow to test it out.
Shocking that the bike handled so well with the state of the fork oil and typical why pattern parts can be a total pita
I was going to hard chrome the stanchions on the bike but got a set of hard chrome pattern ones from the dreaded E B*y.
Seemed good quality so set about overhauling the forks. Left one was full of fresh bright red atf, whilst the right contained about 250ml of grey sludge.
Typical pattern parts the fork tubes are thicker walled so the yellow piston seal on the damper rod needed trimmed by 2 mm to fit correctly and then the standard springs would have been too tight in the tubes .
Luckily I was fitting uprated linear springs which fitted fine, after that the legs went back together perfectly with new 10w fork oil so out tomorrow to test it out.
Shocking that the bike handled so well with the state of the fork oil and typical why pattern parts can be a total pita