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Bryanj:
Exactly why I bought a 3/8 drive windy gun and long allen keys to fit, plus always undid that screw before even removing fork. All the one I took out at Meads had something on the threads on all the Japanese makes.

OZZYSBIKES:
Strange, I must have just got the bikes that have been assembled on a Friday afternoon ?

SPR:
I've just done mine for new seals and luckily loosened them before removing the forks .... they were definitely put in with some sort of thread lock and an absolute pain to loosen

Simon

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.

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