Help with bike lying up

[seth]

 
If it's running you've got a chance to get it sorted .

[Suzuki boi]

If it's running you've got a chance to get it sorted .

First bike I've been on that needed the clutch pulled in 

[seth]

If you dont know you don't know .
Glad your making progress

[Suzuki boi]

Iridium plugs arrived from tr250
Bike starts first tip of the button! Runs a lot better.
So engine running in good nick.

Took a plunge at the forks today.
Got them off.
Got in to one of them, got everything out ,spring, damper rod etc with a fork tool.
Used my lever from my car jack to wedge the damper rod from spinning.
But for the life off me I can't separate the tube from the slider.!!!!!!
I've got the clip out(which is f**ked)
I been puling them apart for hours And nothing they not budging!!
I've drilled The 2 holes in tubes bigger and stuck a driver through it and got it wedged down and put the front wheel shaft on the slider and banged the bejesus out of it and no luck.
I've poured boiling water onto it but nope still doesnt want to come apart!
I'm gonna pick up a heat gun and try that but which one will do? I wouldn't need a powerful one would I?
An oul black and decker one do?
BLACK+DECKER KX1650-GB Heat Gun, 1750 W https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0058GIATY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_5numBbHBXKV2M

[seth]

If the bolt is out of the bottom and the circlip is out from the forkseal nothing to stop it coming apart heat will just damage things.
Use the fork slider like a slide hammer it will come apart.

[Suzuki boi]

If the bolt is out of the bottom and the circlip is out from the forkseal nothing to stop it coming apart heat will just damage things.
Use the fork slider like a slide hammer it will come apart.

4 hours of me and parts of my missus doing that and no luck.
I've a feeling the bushings are wedged onto each other and not letting it come out

[seth]

Only thing that can be holding them together is the fork seal

[Suzuki boi]

Only thing that can be holding them together is the fork seal

Any other techniques in getting it out?

[seth]

Sorry I can't be more help but that's how I've always taken them apart with out much hassles.
Hopefully they come apart ok are you sure everything else is removed as you shouldn't be having as much bother as you are.

[gsxbarmy]

As Seth says, with the bolt out of the bottom of the slider the fork tube and slider come apart by using as a jack hammer to separate the two. The only thing holding the two together is the fork seal itself (assuming you have the spring etc out of the fork itself.

Maybe spray some WD40 around the fork seal itself (assuming you e removed the dust seal and spring holding the fork seal in) to help free it off.

[Suzuki boi]

This is how horrible the seal looked before I even started.


This how it looks now. I scraped what I could of the seal .

Damper rod removed.


Also found this spring circle when dismantling,unsure what it is

[seth]

The spring is part of the fork seal .
I've seen worse did you find the circlip holding the seal in as you need to remove it then they will come apart fairly easily.

[Suzuki boi]

The spring is part of the fork seal .
I've seen worse did you find the circlip holding the seal in as you need to remove it then they will come apart fairly easily.

Yep clip is out.
Was rusted to bits ,I think I threw it out as soon as I took it out.

[seth]

Ok should mow pull apart slide they lower and use as a slide hammer .
There is nothing else to stop them coming apart.

[Hooli]

Have you tried kicking it around the garage? Cause that won't help.

Like Seth says, it should pull out like a slide hammer once the clip retaining the seal is out.