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From: Me Here on 26 Apr 2010 14:32 "Salad Dodger" <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote in message news:jqabt5ta8o4qhag7rq52onn8mcgma7bt15(a)4ax.com... > When you need to do a pair of jobs, that one is piddlingly easy, and > the other impossible. > > GL1500 fork seal. > > RHS, 37 minutes, fork back in lower yoke. > > LHS 3 hours and counting. > > The fork won't pull apart. All the bolts are out, as is the oil, and > the spring. > > It's currently in a vice, with a ratchet strap hooked through the > bottom, attached to the garage door mounting. Taut as a guitar string. > > A 2lb hammer is being applied gingerly. With a wood block in between. > > Everything else on the Wing is okay, afaict. Even the exhausts don't > fart anymore. One assumes the circlip has been removed ? See http://beno.id.au/html/webpages-goldwing/frontForks.html
From: Salad Dodger on 26 Apr 2010 15:10 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:32:59 +0100, "Me Here" <me_here(a)nowhere.org> wrote: > >"Salad Dodger" <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote in message >news:jqabt5ta8o4qhag7rq52onn8mcgma7bt15(a)4ax.com... >> The fork won't pull apart. All the bolts are out, as is the oil, and >> the spring. > >One assumes the circlip has been removed ? One assumes correctly.
From: Salad Dodger on 26 Apr 2010 16:55 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:58:19 +0100, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >Anyway, it's now re-forked. Finish bolting the front on tomorrow, then >it's in the hands of the MOT gods once more. Oh, and for added "fun", try dropping a Wing off the centre stand, and then realising that re-attaching the bars *might* have been a good move. Glad my mum made me eat my greens. That said, it's so well balanced, it was ridiculously easy to put back onto the centrestand in the same configuration.
From: Lozzo on 26 Apr 2010 16:56 Me Here wrote: > One assumes the circlip has been removed ? > See > http://beno.id.au/html/webpages-goldwing/frontForks.html That was going to be my questioon. I spent half an hour pulling forks apart before Pip reminded me there was a circlip installed as well. Daft thing was I'd just stripped the other fork with no bother. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: Salad Dodger on 26 Apr 2010 16:59
On 26 Apr 2010 20:56:11 GMT, "Lozzo" <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote: >Me Here wrote: > >> One assumes the circlip has been removed ? >> See >> http://beno.id.au/html/webpages-goldwing/frontForks.html > > >That was going to be my questioon. I spent half an hour pulling forks >apart before Pip reminded me there was a circlip installed as well. >Daft thing was I'd just stripped the other fork with no bother. The "circlip" that Honda use is more of a big wavy bit of bent wire, and is unmissable when looking at the seal. |