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From: Salad Dodger on 26 Apr 2010 11:07 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. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CB1300SA-9/CBX1000Z _\_____/_| .106850../..08850.../..32457. (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG* |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5 \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11 '^' RBR Clues: 08 Pts:0145 Miles:0406
From: Jim on 26 Apr 2010 11:17 On 26/04/2010 16:07, Salad Dodger wrote: > 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. Is this the one where you can pop the seal out by filling it all back up with water and pushing it together?
From: Mark Olson on 26 Apr 2010 11:19 Jim wrote: > On 26/04/2010 16:07, Salad Dodger wrote: >> 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. > > Is this the one where you can pop the seal out by filling it all back up > with water and pushing it together? Is it hanging up on the seal or the damper rod?
From: Thomas on 26 Apr 2010 11:53 On Apr 26, 8:07 am, Salad Dodger <salad.dod...(a)idnet.com> wrote: > When you need to do a pair of jobs, that one is piddlingly easy, and > the other impossible. Sometimes you can blame an engineer. (This comes from someone who retired from a career in engineering.) I bought an ST1300 after owning an ST1100. It seems as if Honda put a team of newbie engineers on the ST13 with no supervision. For any task, the 13 takes twice as many tools and twice as many fasteners as the 11. Just pulling the front wheel on the 13 takes: 3 allen wrenches (5, 6, & 17mm,) and 4 hex wrenches (8, 10, 12, & 22mm.) The left brake caliper is held with socket head cap screws while the right uses hex head bolts. Absurd.
From: Salad Dodger on 26 Apr 2010 12:58
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:07:10 +0100, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >When you need to do a pair of jobs, that one is piddlingly easy, and >the other impossible. >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. It's now lying at the back of the garage. I've cobbled together another fork out of spares. When that Froggie recovery lad strapped it to the trailer last August, he managed to force out nearly half the total amount of ATF. 750ml in, ~400ml out. Anyway, it's now re-forked. Finish bolting the front on tomorrow, then it's in the hands of the MOT gods once more. |