My last blog entry detailed the problems I was having in removing the fork cap/plug from the top of the RHS stanchion.
Over the last few days I have been variously heating with a blowtorch, hammering, and cooling, to little or no effect.
I have managed to hammer the plug down to it’s lowest point, but it shows no signs of moving back up the tube.
Regular and copious amounts of PlusGas have failed to soak in sufficiently to show any movement of the cap. In order to get it to move up, I fear I will need to push an extremely long drift up the leg from the bottom, and hammer it up. Said drift would need to be quite thin to go through the 8mm hole in the bottom of the leg, so I think thats pretty much a no go for now.
I did remove the leg from the stanchion by undoing the allen bolt in the bottom, and I have retrieved the damping gubbins from another spare leg that i had in the shed, so I just need a spring and a new cap to progress the rebuild.
A pair of original sprngs and a new cap and o-ring were found at not too onerous prices on ebay .
I also ordered oil-seals, and new, original looking dust seals, with the proper grooves in them from Yambits.
The swingarm shaft which I removed a couple of weeks ago, could probably have done a job for a while…
…but I remembered my original guiding principle, that there was to be no corner cutting with the mechanical side of the build, so ordered a new one.
I was also short of some yokes, so I spent a day hunting down a number of needed parts, and placed orders. The parts ordered last week have all now arrived.
I still need to find some bolts for the lower and upper yokes, but I’m confident I’ll find the right ones in one of the boxes in the shed 🙂
The big spring is for the center stand i’ll be fitting, once it is cleaned and sprayed black, and the throttle cable and air filter element are purchases for the future… possibly a long way away given the rate at which the work is progressing.