MrYeats
XS400 Addict
So I was going to change my fork oil....
I depressed the caps but nowhere to be found were any tabs on the circlips to use for removal. As a fact, there was nothing to grab onto to get out the clips...
A thought to drill a hole in the disk and refill the oil thru there....
I do not know what kind of metal is beneath the thin shinned disk but once a hole is drilled past it, therein lies the monster. A metal so hard I burned out three cobalt bits trying to drill thru it but never got thru...
Unsavory dilemma led me to the ideal to lift the front of the bike off the ground with a hoist and remove the forks and go all the way to the bottom and pull the hexhead bolt and separate the two halves , clean and put back toghether and fill the oil thru there...Reinstalled and good to go...
Can't wait to do it again.
I depressed the caps but nowhere to be found were any tabs on the circlips to use for removal. As a fact, there was nothing to grab onto to get out the clips...
A thought to drill a hole in the disk and refill the oil thru there....
I do not know what kind of metal is beneath the thin shinned disk but once a hole is drilled past it, therein lies the monster. A metal so hard I burned out three cobalt bits trying to drill thru it but never got thru...
Unsavory dilemma led me to the ideal to lift the front of the bike off the ground with a hoist and remove the forks and go all the way to the bottom and pull the hexhead bolt and separate the two halves , clean and put back toghether and fill the oil thru there...Reinstalled and good to go...
Can't wait to do it again.