Long Roadholders refurb

Previously adam_davis wrote:

Hello everyone, Happy New Year, roll on the Spring. Talking of spring(s), I am about to rebush my long Roadholder front forks as part of a front end overhaul. Question is, can this be done with the stanchions left in place in the yokes? Are there any notorious problems which I might encounter?

Thanks,

Adam

Suppose you could do, it would be easier o remove them so you could put the sliders in a vice. I think if you removed the mudguard and could get at the seal retaining ring to undo it, everything else should be straightforward. You may have to practice yoga or some such as you will need to undo the damper retaining stud at the bottom of the slider.

good luck and a happy new year

Previously adam_davis wrote:

Hello everyone, Happy New Year, roll on the Spring. Talking of spring(s), I am about to rebush my long Roadholder front forks as part of a front end overhaul. Question is, can this be done with the stanchions left in place in the yokes? Are there any notorious problems which I might encounter?

Thanks,

Adam

Previously adam_davis wrote:

Hello everyone, Happy New Year, roll on the Spring. Talking of spring(s), I am about to rebush my long Roadholder front forks as part of a front end overhaul. Question is, can this be done with the stanchions left in place in the yokes? Are there any notorious problems which I might encounter?

Thanks,

Adam

Hi Adam,

Yes Yoga might be required. As I just recently found they are fairly tricky to reinsert the complete stanchion and fork end into the yokes without the threaded 'pulltrough' tool i read mentioned somewhere. I can only assume this is a stanchion nut threaded section on a shaft or handle to help wiggle the damned thing back into the yoke taper.

So it is not ideal but you can remove the entire fork end assembly off the (yoke attached) stanchion. The only fiddly trouble i had was to hold the spring up out of the way enough to give yourself enough room to carefully tap/press/seat the bronze slider in and seal in after it on reassembly. Having your yoga knee under the fork slider end while tapping and it should make progress. To hold the spring/leather washer/castlated nut out of the way i bent the end of old fork (eating utensile sort) which had a flat end and bent it at about 90 so i could have that hold the spring and etc up out of my way. And a fork tool made out of a fork while at the time was just because i had one in my toolbox for whatever reason and considered it fair game, is now has a certain symmetry about it. But that might just be the yoga talking.

-Steve