Hi Folks...
Right day 2 of this section of the continuing problems with Kurgan, except now theres light at the end of the tunnel and its hard to keep my pace slow n steady, so hopefully I dont make any mistakes.
Yesterday saw it taking most of the day just to strip down & cleaning up the left fork leg !
lets hope today goes much quicker.
So in goes the new seal, with a gentle tap with a large socket its soon seated flush in its new home.
On goes the retaining clip and a liberal dosing of the grease provided with the seals.
Then carefully slide the tube,spring,spacers and top nut up finger tight.
On goes the bottom nut to hold it all together
and altho I have used the dust seal that came with the new oil seals,
I have decide it cant cause any harm to use the original dust caps as well.
Now this is the tricky part as the center adjust bolt kept dissapearing when I tried to get the circlip back on !
It took bloody ages but got there in the end.
Then its on with the bottom plastic adjuster and this fork leg just needs some oil.
One done one to go.
So I loosen of the yoke bolts n drop right fork leg thru, well almost - a quick tighten up of the bottom bolt
And I can loosen the top nut, and then drop the fork leg out.
It takes me about 10 mins to dismantle this fork leg and thats with draining most of the oil !
This side wasnt leaking that much and the seal is the right way up !
As you can see loads of water and some oil deposits.
After a cleanup, so I can see the cir clip can see this seals also a bit of a mess.
After removing the old seal again the inner spacer wasn't seated properly, again a large socket and small hammer soon sorted that out.
After a good clean up in goes the new seal, a coating of grease and the dust seal supplied and put the spring,spacers and top nut back on.
On goes the bottom nut,damper, Circlip & the plastic adjuster
Push the original dust seal over the new ones and this leg is done in just over 2 hours.
Lent up against the white honda cbr100f that was to become my next project (but more about that later)
Thats both forks now done, but all the shops are closed so gotta wait till tomorrow now so I can buy some fork oil.
I could start on the carbs & rear brake, but as Kurgan is up on ramps decide it will be safer if I wait till the front end is back in.
Jobs tomorrow.
1. Insert required amount of fork oil in the tubes.
2. Insert the fork legs & tighten the stem bolts & the fork top bolts.
3. Wash the front discs down, infact they wheel n tyre as well as there are well coated with oil.
4. Insert the front Mudguard & wheel into
forks.
5, remove both sides brake pads and clean oil of them and give them a good rub over.
6. Check Piston seals whilst apart.
7. refit callipers and test front brakes to make sure they working.
Other jobs if still feeling ok.
Try to re-bleed the rear brakes to see if master cylinder partial blockage clears itself. If not see if I have a replacement.
remove carbs ( no 2 carbs floods pernamently) strip and fit smaller mains jets & the carb repair kits.
all being well fire Kurgan up and take for test run
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