upside down forks ?????

[kiffer38]

any1 know how the blue blazing hell ya get exup forks apart, need change the fork seals but cant get em apart, undone the big bolt thing on top of the fork tube, but it wont come out, dont want force it and bust it.
:confused:

[gurnE]

At the bottom of the fork leg will be an allen key bolt, have you removed that?

You should just need to remove that bolt, pop the dust cover up and remove the clip securing the fork seal and it should pull out with a bit of a tug.

[kiffer38]

ah right, so the same as normal forks then, ill av a look in the morn
cheers

[kiffer38]

well still none the wiser, undid the allen bolt in bottom o forks, still dont come apart, seems the top cap is some how attached to the damper rod, and i cant see how the bloody things come apart :confused: looks like it might be a shop job, but im loathed let a shop do it and charge me the earth for a couple of quid parts :mad:

[Blackjack]

Undo the top cap

It wont come off as there's a rod attached to it that runs down inside the spring.

There's a nut that locks the rod into the top nut, you need to either compress the spring, or fiddle a spanner through it and undo that so the rod comes off of the top nut.

After that it all comes apart.

Apparently.....

[kiffer38]

sorted, but i did need to hire a special tool from yamaha, to hold down the spring collet so i could get to the damper rod lock nut :mad:

[Blackjack]

Ahhh....

Usually a 12mm open ended spanner will substitute admirably.

I'm told.

[kiffer38]

Ahhh....

Usually a 12mm open ended spanner will substitute admirably.

I'm told.
needed some round thing with 2 pointed bolts in, was needed to hold the spring down while ya undo the 12mm nut, no other way to hold spring down, but i have now made myself a tool, so next time, i wont need hire 1

[alsorts]

show a pic of the tool in question

[kiffer38]

show a pic of the tool in question
this is a drawing of it, as original has gone back, and i aint quite finished making me own yet
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i207/kiffer38/fzr91t1.gif

[Blackjack]

See the next issue of the mag. :D

Like I said, it doesn't ALWAYS work, but it will usually.

Trouble is the bloody things change so much that that what works on one year's model won't work on another.

[contail]

any1 know how the blue blazing hell ya get exup forks apart, need change the fork seals but cant get em apart, undone the big bolt thing on top of the fork tube, but it wont come out, dont want force it and bust it.
:confused:
hi kiffer. you any where by tysely brum. im next door to tip if you are. im at work sunday monday night if you want to pop round. bring your forks and we can have a go. ive just done me my upside downies. undone the all the bolts but realy had to yank hard to pull them out. under the fork seal is a washer. if the seals are seized in you have to slide forks like a slide hammer. can be nighmare. took me 5 minutes to do left fork. took me a whole night to do right fork. saved me a fortune too.

ade

[kiffer38]

hi kiffer. you any where by tysely brum. im next door to tip if you are. im at work sunday monday night if you want to pop round. bring your forks and we can have a go. ive just done me my upside downies. undone the all the bolts but realy had to yank hard to pull them out. under the fork seal is a washer. if the seals are seized in you have to slide forks like a slide hammer. can be nighmare. took me 5 minutes to do left fork. took me a whole night to do right fork. saved me a fortune too.

ade
ive managed sort it mate, they were fzr1000ru 1994 forks, and i was looking at the diagram for 1991 forks, totally different ball game, the 94 1s have got a great big shroud type thing that covers the locknut, but its done now, cheers any way.
Karl

[contail]

no probs mate. have the same prob with my gsxr forks. catch you later
ade

[Blackjack]

......... they were fzr1000ru 1994 forks, and i was looking at the diagram for 1991 forks, totally different ball game, the 94 1s have got a great big shroud type thing that covers the locknut........
Karl

That's the real root of the problem. Bloody Factorys changing everything every five minutes.