special fork tool

[Guest]

Or you could just loosen the bolts before you take the forks out of the bike and remove the springs, the spring tension holds the dampers from turning very nicely. Use an air impact, easy as could be.

This is assuming everyone owns an air impact.
I do, but I still use a broom handle.

[hampshirehog]

+ one on the broom handle. Though sometimes I use a rake handle

[Guest]

Actually the one I like to use is plastic. Tap it in with a hammer. Works like a charm.

[tkent02]

This is assuming everyone owns an air impact.
I do, but I still use a broom handle.

It works with or without an air impact. It's just easier.

[cowboyup3371]

It works with or without an air impact. It's just easier.

Agreed. Like I said earlier, I just used a standard 3/8ths drill with the socket adapter and a hex socket.

[rudeman]

Okay I'm obviously late on this thread.

I used a bolt with a 19mm hex head and two matching nuts. I threaded the nuts onto the bolt and jammed them nice and tight. Then I attached a 19mm socket on to the end of a Craftsman 20" 3/8" square drive extension.

It worked like a charm.

The extension cost me $12 and change; the bolt and nuts I bought at Lowe's for about a dollar (I think).

[Guest]

Remember the '60's simplicity, when the forks were just internally threaded tubes (at the top), one of my best early wrenching days was when I realized the front axle had the same threads as the tube top, pulled the tube right up against the external spring pressure, easy-peasy. A very special fork tool, lol. Some Yamaha tiddler I was working on for a relative.

[GateKeeper]

way late to the party....

but here is my way of making the tool, no welding required, just some threaded pipe