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There should at least be a small degree of interference requiring a heat gun to preheat the alloy leg and then allow it to drop in. The passage of time ( high kilometres ) has either worn the recess or stretched it. That and the other problems have a cumulative effect.
Good application for loctite?
I've done it before, where the bush internal clearance was still good. The outside diameter would still need to be no more than a few thou clearance in the leg though, and well degreased...
I've also bored legs once and made oversized bushes (Ossa from memory), but in that case the bush OD was slightly smaller than the seal OD so there was room to play with.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Well bugger me. It's a tight fit but I definitely never had to use a heat gun. Sounds like a fair bit of wear there wkingham. Hopefully Nigel's got spare parts that can help. If you get stuck give me a yell. I've got a spare set down here too we may be able to cannibalise to help you out too.
Thanks for your comments Robert. They're much appreciated. I understand that precise measurement is always a good thing to achieve precise results but I'm not sure if you totally answered my question. I guess I really wanted to know if, given that the quality of the Showas in the Suzuki is pretty ordinary, being a few mls out in each fork is really going to make that much of a difference. Either way, next time I change the fork oil I'll pay more attention to it.
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Robert--Can you explain why you Wouldn't use the old tried n true method ?
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Well tried but seldom true! Refilling with a specified oil volume very rarely achieves the same oil level ( and therefore trapped air volume ) from side to side. If you are careful it can get close but there are those of us who are not content with ''thats near enough''.
Reference to setting the oil level and a minimum and maximum range has appeared in the workshop manuals of at least the more sophisticated models for several decades now. The text is certainly not there to use a little more ink and to hasten the demise of The Amazon forest!
Adjusting oil level is a wonderful way of tuning end of stroke air spring effect, just as useful for road going motorcycles as it is for road race and MX. If you go to www.ohlins.com there are downloadable front fork manuals that describe fork tuning inclusive of the effect of changing oil level.
If for example you fill the forks by specified volume and you decide to change to heavier rate springs that are otherwise exactly the same, you have also changed the effective oil level and end of stroke air spring pressure rise. Why? Because the firmer springs will have ( usually ) thicker wire that will displace more oil when installed.
For reasons such as that manufacturers high spec racing forks specify that oil level is checked with the springs installed, it removes a variable.
When I travel to racing meetings I include in my toolkit a large oil levelling syringe and a handful of small 5 and 10ml syringes, plus hyperdermic needles for bleeding and charging nitogen. That does not mean I am taking illegal mind and mood altering drugs! Rather, optimising air spring effect, end of stroke bottoming resistance and attaining maximum available fork travel ( without abrupt bottoming ) is one of the most frequent tuning variaibles employed by top riders and their techs.
In my workshop , be it forks for road race, mx or just a road going commuter I NEVER ever fill by volume, only by specified level and an adjustment made for the application.
Different race tracks require different oil levels, the street circuits such as Paeroa and Wanganui require a higher oil level.
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No doubt your method should be more accurate.What about situations where the forks give a false reading? Im thinking forks with them newfangled innner thingees
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Where some components require filling with oil before assembily
To see a life newly created.To watch it grow and prosper. Isn't that the greatest gift a human being can be given?
It is but a matter of ensuring that everything is fully bled and stabilised before setting the oil level, again, workshop manuals detail the procedure and those of us in the trade have streamlined ways of being able to do so quickly. But Im not crossing that line and divulging that too readily!
Sounds like we're back to 'If you don't know what you're doing, leave it the hell alone'![]()
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