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Coaxial Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 184 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gender:	Fork Dissassembly help 03/13/14 at 16:16:07 Hey I am trying to disassemble a set of forks and I am pretty stuck with my current set of tools: I do not have a deep socket allen wrench, I am trying to use what I have and also my "custom tool" isnt holding up the torque. Should I attack this a different way or am I doing something incorrect?
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28633 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #1 - 03/13/14 at 16:40:11 More leverage if you get the short end of the Allen in there... then use the long end in combo with the wrench like a T-bar... Hold the tube with yer' third hand... ...
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motox56 YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #2 - 03/13/14 at 17:29:08 An air or electric impact usually spins them right out.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #3 - 03/13/14 at 19:14:15 Coaxial wrote on 03/13/14 at 16:16:07: I am trying to use what I have and also my "custom tool" isnt holding up the torque. red locktite
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18095 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #4 - 03/14/14 at 04:57:13 Or take your custom tool to a welding shop and have them zap a small bead of weld on it.....or you can drill a hole through the nut and threaded rod and install a roll pin. A set of metric bits for your 3/8" ratchet is really handy when working on motorcycles.
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Re: Fork Dissassembly help
Reply #5 - 03/14/14 at 05:35:37

You can do it with what you've already got.. That tool is the exact same I've used just recently.. When you tighten down the two nuts against eachother, you should use a long, I don't know what it's called in english, but I'll attach an image of what I mean.. One with alot of leverage, so you can get them real tight against eachother.. As for the umbraco in the other end, you could use a longer spanner or slide a tube down the one you got on the pic..

Or as dave mentioned, get a set of long umbraco tops for your 3/8 - or you could just buy 1 top for this job, if your local toolshop have them seperately..

Scroll down to the last post, and you can see what I used :

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1298159607/0#12

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Coaxial Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 184 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #6 - 03/14/14 at 20:57:24 Thanks guys! I tried red loctite and it did not hold. It is stuck in there pretty good. I will get it welded somewhere, or I am thinking of just getting a 1/2 extender with my impact wrench and a 24mm hex socket.
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Re: Fork Dissassembly help
Reply #7 - 03/14/14 at 21:53:47

Coaxial wrote on 03/14/14 at 20:57:24:

Thanks guys! I tried red loctite and it did not hold. It is stuck in there pretty good.

I will get it welded somewhere, or I am thinking of just getting a 1/2 extender with my impact wrench and a 24mm hex socket.

I think you're torqueing the wrong end.

you're only supposed to be holding from the top.

and loosening from the bottom.

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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18095 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #8 - 03/15/14 at 04:42:28 Versy. Do mean he should have the wrench on the bottom nut for loosening - so the turning force tends to force the nut into the other nut? Then use the top nut for tightening...for the same reason?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #9 - 03/15/14 at 08:55:58 No, I guess I just do this intuitively. You got a bolt you are trying to loosen. The lever you have on it is the best. The part is supported by one hand. and the nut is held by a crappy wrench that keeps slipping. Solution: hold the part till the bolt breaks free, then hold the nut. Or hold both at same time.
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Coaxial Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 184 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #10 - 03/15/14 at 14:06:22 Guys, Im having issues still. Ive tried using the impact wrench and no go. Using a 24mm socket extended with a 5/8ths coupler at the end. Counterclockwise right?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #11 - 03/15/14 at 14:29:51 righty tighty, lefty loosey.
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Coaxial Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 184 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: Fork Dissassembly help Reply #12 - 03/15/14 at 14:48:36 okay cool it broke free after some assistance from another person. Now is it suppose to have a long thread? its taking forever for it to come out. Should I have removed the bottom allen bolt first? EDIT! Got it, I didnt know to hold down both the allen bolt at the bottom whilst removing the damper on the other end.
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