Fork rebuild, easy enough to DIY?

[ben2306]

The fork guide is in the Document library.


Heres the link: http://www.400greybike.com/docs.htm

what's fork oil air gap? how do we measure it?

[Variablevalves suck]

Look in the sticky 2nd from top as all the specs are listed.

[ben2306]

so if the required oil capacity is filled into fork. shouldn't the fork oil gap be correct? will there be any reason why its not? or its just either 1 of the measurement to take into consideration?

[Variablevalves suck]

In theory it should but it depends on how much old oil is still in the fork.
You add oil and then check the air gap after.

[Marsbar]

Rather then create a new topic, ive tried the search option but it keeps returning as the words are to popular blah blah.

need my stanchions re-chroming,

Just wondering how do I actually get it off the bottom bit of the fork were the axle is ect? re-build them with new seals ect before but i've not taken it fully apart.

[Variablevalves suck]

Not sure on the 76a, some have a grub screw and others screw in.
It's hard to get them apart as they are usually locktight'd on.

[avinitboys]

This is an old thread but just for info, I removed my fork lowers from the stanchions recently and yes.............they are bloody hard to get off!
They are held in by a small grub screw that refused to budge on either leg so these were drilled out and retapped to take a larger grubscrew. I then clamped the stanchion in an old set of NC30 yokes that I had kicking around and clamped the whole assembly in the vice. A bit of heat from the blowtorch, a correctly fitting piece of round bar through the axle hole and hey presto, they unscrew on a very fine pitch thread. They look like they are glued in from the factory as VVS suggests. It's not easy but, certainly not impossible.
Hope that helps anyone looking to do this at a later date.
Paul