hongman

Ok, all done. Only took 1.5 hours, 30 mins of which was taking the fairings off and back on. I know I didnt need to but while waiting for my mate I thought it'd give better access etc.

Some things we noticed and were not sure about....

1. The oil that came out was a dark brown/red colour, but consistency didnt seem that much different to the new stuff. Didnt smell of anything.

2. The LH fork was a bit of a bastad to get the cap back on, took two of us to do it. One to hold the fork leg and the other pushing down really hard as we needed to compress the spring also. The RHS was really easy, cap just screwed on. It was like the LHS internals sat higher up?

One thing I will note is that I did not strip the forks completely, as my allen socket could not reach the damper rod bolt. Allen keys were useless, and I didnt want to risk rounding.

So just undid the cap, took all the bits out, sloshed round with paraffin and pumped it abuot to get all the crap out.

LHS fork while empty got stuck down fully compressed, and took a fair yank to free it up again. RHS exhibited no such behaviour.

So questions are:

Is there something wrong with the LHS, what with the components sitting higher up (past the cap thread) and getting stuck while empty and compressed?

Did I measure the air gap correctly? Had all the internals out, leg fully down, gap of 115mm as per haynes from top of fork.

Took it for a quick blat down the road, I wouldnt say its night and day difference but certainly a bit better - less diving on braking and deceleration. Wont know til I take it for a proper run.

Thanks.