How To On Fork Spring Changeout

Originally Posted by TURBO200R4 Link Removed
Hi guys
just finished putting seals in forks.
the way i did mine was to leave the outer tubes on the bike.
after removing ft. fender,brakes,wheel,ect. took the bolts from bottom of yoke.
unscrewed top fork caps and the whole spring assy came out.
one person can grab sleeve and pull down a little.
i didn't change my springs. but i think you could make some L brackets
and hose clamps to pull the sleeve down to get to the nuts that lock down the fork cap.

you are suppose to have a rod to screw on the end to control the spring as it comes off.
i would think that a three foot pipe that would fit over the stud still go into the spring would work.
i would not try this alone!
you could take it to dealer should be cheap this way.
if you do it this way when you load spring assy back in,
you won't be able to measure the fluid (89mm). you have to go with 667cc (667ml) fill.
i used a small funnel placed against the sleeve to get the fluid in.
the seals was easy to pull out, just pry out with screw driver be careful not to damage surface,
when you put in new seal just drive it deep enough to get retainer ring in place.

i think that driving them to bottom might be the reason for them leaking.
hope this helps
herman


yea, take lots of pictures.
 
dif between std/classic and touring???

My bud the MC mechanic mentioned a length of the right diameter PVC pipe, so I think he knows what he's doing. I'll take some pics tomorrow when I do mine.

FWIW, the spring compressor tool is only $45, less than I expected. T3880067 Triumph Fork Spring Compressor.


Tripps,,I see you have a touring. Someone mentioned that the touring uses a different fork from the other R3's?? Does anyone know what the difference is as far as servicing the forks....i.e spring change and oil?? I have a shop manual for R3 but it doesn't specify anything different for the touring.
 
I don't know, but although dimensions, etc, may be different, I'd have to guess they were the same general design.
 
The Touring uses "conventional forks" The tube is fixed in triple clamps with the female slider on bottom. The top cap nut is under pressure from the spring and must be restrained during dissambly. The other Rockets use “upside down forks” with the female tube fixed in the triple clamps and the male slider at bottom. The fork spring is part of the damper rod assembly so the fork cap is not under spring prressure.
 
It should all be clearer tomorrow, for me, LOL. Interestingly, I opened the spring package today, looks like they included the lengths of PVC tube my buddy mentioned.
 
OK,,that explains it!!

The Touring uses "conventional forks" The tube is fixed in triple clamps with the female slider on bottom. The top cap nut is under pressure from the spring and must be restrained during dissambly. The other Rockets use “upside down forks” with the female tube fixed in the triple clamps and the male slider at bottom. The fork spring is part of the damper rod assembly so the fork cap is not under spring prressure.

Yeh, that makes more sense. I have looked at them both and I knew they were way different. Never had a chance to look at them side-by-side though otherwise I would have seen this obvious difference. The Touring is not considered a "performance" machine, thus they didn't opt for the inverted forks i'm assuming. Oh,well, Tripps is doing his forks soon, so we will have some accurate Touring pics I hope.
Good luck on the upcoming work Tripps!!
 
The forks were apparently easy, But I had such a bad day working on the bike with my friend, I missed most of it, no way could I take pictures. Progressives in, everything else went to ****. (so did that,but it's done)
 
The forks were apparently easy, But I had such a bad day working on the bike with my friend, I missed most of it, no way could I take pictures. Progressives in, everything else went to ****. (so did that,but it's done)

You didn't take pictures??? :(
 
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