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special fork tool

  • Thread starter Thread starter Greenbraes
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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).
 
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.
 
way late to the party....

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





 
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