Part number please K7 model!

[Speedy1959]

The point I was making was that despite all the crappy roads and pot holes my forks have never bottomed out.
I NEVER do wheelies so I guess I will be just fine !

[hard road]

The point I was making was that despite all the crappy roads and pot holes my forks have never bottomed out.
I NEVER do wheelies so I guess I will be just fine !

never do wheelies !!!! never to late to start 

[Andre]

The point I was making was that despite all the crappy roads and pot holes my forks have never bottomed out.
I NEVER do wheelies so I guess I will be just fine !

As long as you are aware what the function of the oil lock piece is.

I never do wheelies either (not on purpose anyway). Somehow I doubt you will be able to bottom out the fork with them

I do know however what it means to go well over 200 km/h and then have to do an emergency stop action. Very glad I had these plastic bits in place.

Still wonder why your's went to pieces. From the pic they do look more flimsy than the white K2 ones.

[Speedy1959]

Thursday morning and that Placcy part arrived all the way from Japan in less than a week!!
This one is white plastic (Old was yellow)..
Strange thing is I had received an e mail from the company saying it could be over a month!
That was why I went ahead and reassembled my fork without the placcy bit, as there is no way on Earth its being off the road for a month!

Last night (YET AGAIN) I removed the fork and dis assembled it all to fit that pain in the ass placcy bit!
Despite the fork oil being just 1 week old I replaced it all in both legs!
By the way the fork oil was BLACK after only 135 miles or so !!!
So you cant just look at the colour to determin the age.

Andre, just can now sleep easier as I have the Placcy bit refitted.

Here endeth the saga (I HOPE).

S.

[grog]

I reckon youre the forking expert now Speedy. 😂

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Fork that, glad you got it sorted.  It's real important to get all the old oil out of the inner cartridges, I wash them out with kerosene or mineral turns, actuating them all the time and then blowing them out with compressed air.

[hard road]

just like I said you have to wash out the damper rod to get all the old oil out, any thats left will mix with the new oil and turn it dark/black.  same thing happens with engine oil.

[grog]

Yeah, im a Mechanic, do most things but hate messing with forks. Just Me.Take them out, suspension bloke does whatever, pay him the bucks, never a problem. Refit and all good. I like his advice, his cost, the way he gets them to work. All i need. Probably not that hard but thats my way.

[Andre]

I pump the cartridge empty. Then dip the end in a cup with the left over oil from the last change and pump it a few; then repeat with fresh left over oil till clear. After 3500 km the oil looked minimally polluted. I also use the oil to clean the rest of the fork inners.

[GSXKING]

I'm with Grog let someone else get dirty. 

[Andre]

I'm with Grog let someone else get dirty. 

I am a dirty old man - so getting dirty is in my nature

[hard road]

I'm with Grog let someone else get dirty. 

thats one of the reasons i became a mechanic 

[Speedy1959]

just like I said you have to wash out the damper rod to get all the old oil out, any thats left will mix with the new oil and turn it dark/black.  same thing happens with engine oil.

When I change the engine oil I NEVER drain the oil cooler!
So with this in mind I am NOT concerned about the odd ML left in the forks!
If I change my fork oil say once a year then this is FAR more often then  the usual once every blown fork seal (AKA 5years).
Its all too easy to become over anal about maintenance..
As an X girlfriend once said to me...
Some is enough... And enough is too much !!
Make of that what you will!

I have another life to lead outside of worrying about my fork oil..
I do the best I can with NO GARAGE and working outside (dodging the rain)..
If thats not good enough, then so be it!
I wont be losing sleep over it and neither will my bike.

S.

[hard road]

just like I said you have to wash out the damper rod to get all the old oil out, any thats left will mix with the new oil and turn it dark/black.  same thing happens with engine oil.

When I change the engine oil I NEVER drain the oil cooler!
So with this in mind I am NOT concerned about the odd ML left in the forks!
If I change my fork oil say once a year then this is FAR more often then  the usual once every blown fork seal (AKA 5years).
Its all too easy to become over anal about maintenance..
As an X girlfriend once said to me...
Some is enough... And enough is too much !!
Make of that what you will!

I have another life to lead outside of worrying about my fork oil..
I do the best I can with NO GARAGE and working outside (dodging the rain)..
If thats not good enough, then so be it!
I wont be losing sleep over it and neither will my bike.

S.

I wasn't telling you what to do speedy     as a professional mechanic its what I did to customers forks (and my own) in the workshop.  I would like to do the same with engine oil but a full strip down is a bit OTT   

[Andre]

Fair enough Simon

We just like to share our ways. Take it or leave it as you deem fit.