I've done them on my '92 Honda Shadow. The toughest part was the allen bolt
on the bottom, was Damn tight.
Douglas
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From: Curt Raymond
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 3:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Tonight I'm a motorcycle mechanic
Thanks.
It worked
I've done them on BMW. Not hard at all. See the manual. on the /5,
you put it on the centerstand, pull the front wheel, loosen the lock
nut, the the allen screw and drain the fork oil. Then unscrew the
top cap of each leg, and decompress the spring. then you take out
the bolt at the
: [MBZ] OT: Tonight I'm a motorcycle mechanic
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I've done them on BMW. Not hard at all. See the manual. on the /5,
you put it on the centerstand, pull the front wheel, loosen the lock
nut
Douglas wrote:
I've done them on my '92 Honda Shadow. The toughest part was the allen
bolt on the bottom, was Damn tight.
For a reason. If you lose that bolt, (well, you'd have to lose them on both
forks) your front wheel, lower forks, and brakes can roll on down the road
without you.
I've
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond
curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
My wife's motorcycle hasn't been out of the garage this year, the
starter was acting poorly, it would disengage as it cranked, not good
and it scared the crap out of her.
If you've never seen one motorcycle
, will source them from the Kawasaki dealer this time.
Anybody ever done fork seals? Is it a hard job?
-Curt
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:22:00 -0600
From: Craig diese...@pisquared.net
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Tonight I'm a motorcycle mechanic
Message-ID: 20110717162200.1878eff2.diese
My wife's motorcycle hasn't been out of the garage this year, the starter was
acting poorly, it would disengage as it cranked, not good and it scared the
crap out of her.
If you've never seen one motorcycle starters are interesting, and this one
especially because it's chain drive. Its got a
