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front fork cylinder holder and adapter /substitute
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1978 LTD B2 smashed
1978 Z1R D1
1978 A2
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If your fork cylinders have the hexagonal depression you can make a tool by welding the appropriate size bolt to a metal rod so the hex head of the bolt can engage the hex depression in the fork cylinder. Ed
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Still recovering,some days are better than others.
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in other words drain fork oil from small screw towards the bottom of fork leg, do not remove top cap or spring
then wrap the top fork tube with rags, or an old innertube or piece of rubber, & clamp it in a vise ,just tight enough to keep it from turning, while you use impact wrench on the bottom, of the bottom tube square 3/8 or 1/2 inch screw on the bottom fork leg
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1980 LTD 1000..,1976 LTD 900, have the 1000&900 now. the rest are previous= 1978 KZ 650 B.., 1980 Yamaha XT 500..,1978 Yamaha DT 400.., 1977 Yamaha yz 80..,Honda trail ct 70.., Honda QA 50...5-1/2 hp brigs & straton CAT chopper mini bike...3-1/2 hp mini bike (WHEN GAS WAS ABOUT 45 CENTS A GALLON)!!!!
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MDZ1rider wrote: ....... I've rebuilt at least 20 sets of forks, and an impact wrench has worked every time. Just break it loose with the forks assembled and still on the bike. The spring pressure helps keep the internals from spinning and the bike's triple clamps are the best vice you'll find. .......
You were very lucky! Mine would not break free even though I used a good impact wrench and left the fork springs in. The only way I got one of mine loose was to use the tool I show in the posting above along with the impact wrench. The other one just spun no matter what I did. I ended up having my wife hold the fork cylinder from spinning using my home made tool while I drilled the head off the allen bolt from below. Even that was difficult as the allen bolt seemed to "work harden" from the drilling, but I managed to drill the head off of it. Maybe the factory put an extra heavy dose of loctite on mine? The good news is that the tool made it easy to torque the allen bolts to spec when I re-assembly the forks. Ed
1977 KZ650-C1 Original Owner - Stock (with additional invisible FIAMM horn)
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