fork work

[skeetly]

Im planning on doing my hagons and my head bearings next weekend.
I've had alittle look at the bike and I think i can do it without removing the fairing.
I thought I'd put it past you lot first and see what you think.

Unbolt calipers and brake pipe brackets; support on string.
Remove front wheel and fender.
Loosen clip on bolts and yoke bolts and remove forks.
Support handlebars on clothy bits and string
Remove yoke cap nut etc and leave top yoke where it is.
Remove lock nuts etc with 'fiendishly ingenious special tool' creation and slide stem out.
Apply grease to bearings and re assemble yokes.
Tighten up lock nuts with F.I.S.T.
Replace top yoke.
Do hagon stuff.
reassemble fork legs and so on.

Scratch the brake stuff just read this thread:
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=124261
Doh.

[northwind]

I'd get the fairings out of the way personally, you can almost certainly do it with them in place but it's nice to get expensive shiny bits out of the way, and it gives you more room to work. Sometimes shortcuts work out long, if you inadvertantly FIST your fairing... But ymmv of course.

[yorkie_chris]

Yes take the panels off makes life much easier doing all that lot.

Clean the bearings down with something before re-greasing. These don't move quickly so you can use a full packing of grease.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by skeetly

Im planning on doing my hagons and my head bearings next weekend.
I've had alittle look at the bike and I think i can do it without removing the fairing.
I thought I'd put it past you lot first and see what you think.

Unbolt calipers and brake pipe brackets; support on string.
Remove front wheel and fender.
Loosen clip on bolts and yoke bolts and remove forks.
Support handlebars on clothy bits and string
Remove yoke cap nut etc and leave top yoke where it is.
Remove lock nuts etc with 'fiendishly ingenious special tool' creation and slide stem out.
Apply grease to bearings and re assemble yokes.
Tighten up lock nuts with F.I.S.T.
Replace top yoke.
Do hagon stuff.
reassemble fork legs and so on.

Scratch the brake stuff just read this thread:
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=124261
Doh.

By doing the hagon stuff, do you mean replace the fork springs & oil?

If you are replacing the fork springs, be VERY careful when removing the fork cap nuts. They are made of cheese, and very easy to round off.

After that its easy peasy, but be careful when replacing the fork cap nuts. Take as much load off the forks (ie tip it backward), as you can, as this will make refitting the springs easier. They only have a fine thread, and would be easy to cross thread.

[skeetly]

Cheers folks.
I'll take the fairing off then.
I was going to leave it on as it provided a little platform to rest the bars and the top yok on but I guess I can sort something out for those anyhow.

Yes i am doing the fork springs and cheers for the heads up on the fork cap nuts.

hey skeetly hope you don't mind me asking but where did you buy your hagon stuff from want too upgrade my stuff too.

wemoto do the springs i last time i checked

who's the other dude's that make em powerpro or something like that there's some k-tech one's on ebay but i'm not sure what i'm looking at tbh just want to get rid of the stock poo as the gixxer conversion's too much for me work/money wise.

Or get directly from Hagon....

are they the best though.