Quick guide to a front end freshen up

[Dejavu]

Since ive just learnt to post pic's heres a quick rundown of what i did today

Quick guide to a front end freshen up, Fork seals and headstem bearings

Things you will need to do this:

1) Workshop manual for your specific model of Bike
2) New fork oil and forkseals (From your Local Dealer)
3) headstem bearing (From your Local Dealer or bearing joint)
4) Decent tool set (C-Spanner, Sockets, Tbar Allen keys, screw drivers, Plastic Mallet ect.)
5) Straps and a Strong Ceiling Joist.
6) A Motorbike with stuffed forkseals and headstem bearings
7) Second pair of hands (not paws, but thats all I had )

To Start:




Getting the front end totally off the ground with straps connected to the frame to pivot up (use rear stand aswell)
Remove front wheel, forks and any other clutter around the front end to give access to head stem bearings.





Refer to manual to rebuild your specific forks with the help of prepurchased parts



Remove top triple clamp



Pull back the lock tabs inbetween the doulbe nuts then remove with c-spanner the double nuts





Then the lower tripleclamp should fall through



Replace z bearings and repack new bearings with heaps of low temp grease



Rebuild in reverse the way you stripped it down and tension up the tripleclamp to where its just grabbing as you turn lock to lock



then dunnah all done in half a day.. even Dixy is happy
Doing this thread took me longer... thanks Dingo



disclaimer: you need a certain amount of mechanical know how.. this is not a be all guide and no responsability is accepted for any injury or damage as a result of following my crap instructions

[Sean'o]

Poor Dixy, she always gets the hard jobs!

[Mattis]

Nice work there Kev!!!

It&#39;s good to see you are doing something constructive with your <strike>holidays</strike> recovery time

Is a dog a compulsory item for this job, if so im shit out of luck

[Dejavu]

Poor Dixy, she always gets the hard jobs!
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she was catchin shadows the whole time

Nice work there Kev!!!

It&#39;s good to see you are doing something constructive with your <strike>holidays</strike> recovery time

Is a dog a compulsory item for this job, if so im shit out of luck
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The dog is an optional extra... comes in handy for beatings when shit goes wrong

[Barfridge]

Beer is compulsary, dog is optional.

[Maarken]

Nice one buddy .... Sorry i didn&#39;t stay to help u out i had a brand new CBR 1000RR to ride

[Bulbous]

nice read sunshine...... good to see the old girl is still hanging in there......

might have to get things like this stickied? then i will come round with the camera, and we can get some clear pics......

[chief wiggum]

you dont live in warwick do you? that looks like my old carport. and that bike is the one what was parked right behind me at the MAD ride.

[Dejavu]

you dont live in warwick do you? that looks like my old carport. and that bike is the one what was parked right behind me at the MAD ride.
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close but still not the right suburb alot of houses built back in that period around that area are identical in layout

My sister rode the blade for Mad as my foot is still broken... im suprised she didnt run it up your arse (i crash proofed it just so she could ride it too)

nice read sunshine...... good to see the old girl is still hanging in there......

might have to get things like this stickied? then i will come round with the camera, and we can get some clear pics......
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yeah mate anytime ..
all those pics were done on my phone camera .heance the shitty quality .

[Infusi0n]

Nice work kev but Dixy is actually not an optional extra she&#39;s a standard.

[Bendito]

This is a great "How To" *hint hint*