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Are the bottom half of the forks lacquered or is it just straight metal, just would like to know before attacking them with polish.
Ta - Si
Spanner Man
21-01-10, 11:59 AM
Good morning.
They're laquered, remove it before polishing or re-painting.
Cheers.
Dave20046
21-01-10, 12:03 PM
If you want to buy some fork lowers to practice on pm me :D
dizzyblonde
21-01-10, 12:46 PM
Once polished don't re-laquer; just look after them and polsih them regular. If you re-laquer them., you'll be back where you started...scabby!
Easy job, small paint brush and some non drip , self nuetralising paint remover.
Dave20046
21-01-10, 12:52 PM
Be careful to keep and chemicals away from the stancions/where they go into the lowers. Not sure how seals/fork oil would take to it.
Many thanks and sounds like a job for the summer tbh, I want to do it but I have more pressing things to do first if it's not a quick polish :-)
If you want to buy some fork lowers to practice on pm me :D
Depends how much you want for them Dave, I may consider it and do a rebuild on them with and just replace mine but that would be later in the year. If you put in a nice yellow tank at a discount then that would sweeten the deal ;-)
Dave20046
21-01-10, 12:55 PM
Many thanks and sounds like a job for the summer tbh, I want to do it but I have more pressing things to do first if it's not a quick polish :-)
Agree, they'll go crap again in no time in the winter.
dizzyblonde
21-01-10, 01:06 PM
Be careful to keep and chemicals away from the stancions/where they go into the lowers. Not sure how seals/fork oil would take to it.
Thats why you wrap plenty of masking tape round the dust seals, and are careful where you throw your stripper.
Agree, they'll go crap again in no time in the winter.
ACF50, or when polished keep em that way. Both SVs have been through winters with stripped polished forks and they stay shiny. Granted not so much this year but previous years have faired well. You do get slight white salt deposits on them but are easily wiped away with a bit of the autosol.
Yer, I'm happy to keep em clean dizzy, it just sounds like a job that's better with the forks off the bike tbh, that'll give me a chance to renew the seals as well because they look scabby and change the springs for the hagons in the draw. I just have a lot of other stuff happening with the bike at the moment I don't fancy taking on another large ish (for me) job when I haven't had it running and tested with the CCT, the valve checks, carb clean and now the brakes off. I have got to the point of cleaning a few bits then rider it when it's all back together :-) The sub frame coating and forks can wait a few months.
Dave20046
21-01-10, 02:24 PM
Depends how much you want for them Dave, I may consider it and do a rebuild on them with and just replace mine but that would be later in the year. If you put in a nice yellow tank at a discount then that would sweeten the deal ;-)
I'll get back to you on that one - still waiting on the money to materialise!
Fork lowers? £20
(I can give you them with all the internals, only done 12000 hard miles - may well be better than your current ones)
dizzyblonde
21-01-10, 05:56 PM
Yer, I'm happy to keep em clean dizzy, it just sounds like a job that's better with the forks off the bike tbh,.
Thats the way I thought you were doing it! Be a PITA if it weren't.
Apart from not knocking the bike over is taking the forks off relatively simple, I suppose it is so the question should be how easy is it to get wrong when putting them back on?
Dave20046
21-01-10, 06:05 PM
Apart from not knocking the bike over is taking the forks off relatively simple, I suppose it is so the question should be how easy is it to get wrong when putting them back on?
easy its about 10 bolts.
wheel out calipers off (be wary of the amount of strain you put on the brake lines) mudguard off, loosen all your bolts on the yokes (worth loosening everything before takin wheel off) note how much the forks are protruding above the top yoke and slip the fork legs out.
barwel1992
21-01-10, 06:14 PM
easy its about 10 bolts.
wheel out calipers off (be wary of the amount of strain you put on the brake lines) mudguard off, loosen all your bolts on the yokes (worth loosening everything before takin wheel off) note how much the forks are protruding above the top yoke and slip the fork legs out.
6 actuly lol :D well if u dont count the wheel bolts/mud guard/brakes, its 14 bolts for the whole lot :smt064
tiz very easy to get them out, i wouldent bother removing the yokes thogh
Dave20046
21-01-10, 06:26 PM
, i wouldent bother removing the yokes thogh
cause you don't need to :cool:
Yer I figured getting them out was easy but is it as easy getting them back in and aligned correctly as easy?
Dave20046
21-01-10, 08:07 PM
Yer I figured getting them out was easy but is it as easy getting them back in and aligned correctly as easy?
Its fine, just take yer time
Ta m8, this will be my summer project for a damp week, my forks just look in a bad state (along with lots of other bits) so I have new seals, dust covers and springs ready to fit so I may as well do a full strip and clean on em and get the lot right in one go.
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