Fork slider finish.
 

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

Re: Fork bottom bits
 

Good morning.


They're laquered, remove it before polishing or re-painting.


Cheers.

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If you want to buy some fork lowers to practice on pm me :D

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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.

Re: Fork bottom bits
 

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.

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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 :-)

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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 ;-)

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Agree, they'll go crap again in no time in the winter.

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Thats why you wrap plenty of masking tape round the dust seals, and are careful where you throw your stripper.

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.

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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.