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Spitfire:
Mine were the same had to insert a socket put the nut back on, put the leg in a vise and compress the spring against a wall.

Cheers

Dennis

OZZYSBIKES:
Well I am amazed that I haven't seen it before in my 52 years of repairing bikes for myself and as an employee in two bike shops,  maybe the one that I have just done on the 550 was replaced with high strength thread locking by a.n.other whereas the original stuff is low strength and therefore comes undone a little easier, I of course know to try and crack the bolt while the forks are built up and to try and put more load on the spring in an effort to stop the damper spinning, there was absolutely no chance of that working, I had to take the spring out and then use an alloy tube onto the damper to get enough weight and friction to get it all the way out, first time I have had that much trouble just getting the bolt out, eh oh, you live and learn, all done and dusted now,

PS the fork strip and service was done because after the twin disc conversion that I carried out the forks were diving like Tom Daley so I have stripped and serviced them then rebuilt with the correct quantity of 15W fork oil, much better now with improved compression damping.

Bryanj:
P81 of the Honda 500/550 manual tells you to put thread locking compound on the bolt

OZZYSBIKES:
It says thread lock on the threaded part of the damper where the top lock nut fits, no reference to thread lock on the Allen screw that goes through the bottom of the slider into the bottom of the damper, the later fork doesn't have the lock nut on a threaded bar

OZZYSBIKES:
I give up, usual forum diatribe

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