Subject: front forks
Author: John Prusnek
Date: Mar 21, 2002, 6:57 AM
Post ID: 1709897932
Kev wrote:
Yeah, this was with the axle in place. I got the axles mixed up and
Did you try to put the axle through? It's been a while since I looked at my
wheel but I'm thinkin' part of the axle acts as a spacer. Might be the rear
though, might be another bike altogether, but try it before disassembling
everything.
Kev
tried them both, neither helped. I'm pretty sure that the shorter one is
for the front.
Cookie wrote:
it's possible the triple trees are not lined up. slacken the 2 lower TTWell, I took everything apart to look at it. What I found after
bolts & twist the fork legs. see if it's possible to make them line up that
way.
there will be a gap between hub & left fork slider. this is taken up by the
thicker part of the wheel spindle.
cookie
bolting the lower triple tree to the forks and putting the upper tree
in place (on my bench) is that the steering spindle is about 1/8" off
center of the hole in the upper triple tree. When I had everything on
the bike and the steering spindle bolted on, the fork tubes were about
1/8" out of alignment from the upper tree, and I had to really fight to
get them through the upper tree. What I've surmised from this is that
somehow the lower tree is tweaked. I checked the fork tubes with a
straight edge and they're fine.
So, the project is momentarily stalled until I find another lower
triple tree. ANYBODY OUT THERE GOT ONE THEY WANNA SELL CHEAP? Or
reasonably? I'm really in need here.
Thanks,
John Prusnek