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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 2/19/2008 9:41:38 AM

Jump1979man

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good write up.

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 2/27/2008 7:23:21 PM

97slowbird

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Dude, you ROCK !!!! ... Just changed out my fork seals from your writeup ... and saved myseld $220.00 (stealership price). Thanks again !!!!

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 4/1/2008 7:40:09 PM

Scrufdog

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perfect. This is basically exactly the same for F2 and F3 forks. The only difference is socket sizes. First one took me an hour (gathering tools as i needed them), the second one took me 1/2 hour.

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 6/28/2008 3:30:30 PM

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I totally missed the step on the seal driver tool and making one. Can someone point it out to me. I think I just may try to redo my forks on my own.

Which brings this question:
I had my forks redone. I have no idea what the oil type/level or weight is. The guy who did my forks sold his business and the new owner hasn''t gotten back to me in ..... well, a long time. What do I do?

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 6/28/2008 6:38:42 PM

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damn, I was just digging this thread up for you jaybird, was going to show you how to make the fork seal driver, but its gone!

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 6/28/2008 7:17:09 PM

Scrufdog

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crud, what happened to the rest of it?

I was about to link this to my uncle....

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 9/18/2008 8:51:45 PM

John Mellencamp

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Bump for a seal driver and how too please .

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 9/20/2008 6:50:57 PM

axsys

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Seal driver part number is 32888-60505 from home depot. You just have to cut it where the inner diameter gets smaller, and grind off the threads on the end. Heres a crappy phone pic to help out:

< Message edited by axsys -- 9/20/2008 6:52:14 PM >

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Home Depot ?? - 10/15/2008 8:16:58 PM

wjerlinger

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I need to pick up one of these bad! The people at Home Depot (32888-60505) looked at me like I was an idiot when I gave them the photo. They asked what it is or what it does. Does anyone know what this is or what it''s used for? Please let me know asap!

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RE: Home Depot ?? - 10/16/2008 12:17:04 AM

John Mellencamp

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I feel your pain wjerlinger I ended up taking my shocks to the local Honda shop .

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RE: Home Depot ?? - 10/16/2008 11:08:56 PM

axsys

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lol. thats not what it looks like normally, thats after its been modified. its some type of pvc reducer or coupling or something.

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 10/27/2008 1:18:41 PM

Lemondrop

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Where the rest of the info?? Need to get new seals on the bike before next trackday...was thinking about upgrading the internals while i was in there.........

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 10/27/2008 6:00:02 PM

kcchu07720

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I went to home depot and looked around. I found an 1 3/4 inch pvc cross in the plumbing department. part number 012871624872. Since the fork tube is 43mm (1.6) inches that seemed to be the closest fit. There''s a lot of different types of pvc pipes and connectors but the cross also gives me an area to tap on and not risk hitting the fork tube. It was $2.51 +tax. Hope this helps.

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 10/27/2008 6:04:52 PM

Lemondrop

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that is helpful.....but what about the rest of the write-up?? it just stops at taking out the snag ring..??

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RE: How to: Rebuild your forks (F4 or F4i) - 11/2/2008 12:25:18 AM

TikkiTakki

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@ Lemondrop, yeah I feel the same way.... it ended abruptly, what else?