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<blockquote data-quote="yamafitter" data-source="post: 891843" data-attributes="member: 15141"><p>I don't know if Ray has the seal drivers for doing the fork bushings. Fork seals are easy. If you have never had the folks looked at I would suspect at your mileage on a Gen II the bushings need replacement and you might as well replace the fork seals since the seals will be removed to get at the bushings. You will also need a couple of bottles of your favorite flavour of fork oil. Those of us that have done fork upgrades run a slightly different flavour due to the added valving.</p><p></p><p>We will also need some solvent such as naphtha for cleaning the metering rods and flushing out the tubes. I'm going to suggest that we find a local Owosso supplier and get a 5 gal gas can worth of solvent to clean all the parts we will be doing rather than everyone trying to cart solvent on the bikes. You may also want to consider ordering parts and fork oil in advance and have them delivered to Owosso. Just a thought.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I would think fork oil change as a bare minimum.</p><p></p><p>I'm planning on also changing the steering head bearings to the tapered roller design since the forks will be off the bike and this will be the perfect time to work on the steering head.</p><p></p><p>Here is the link on steering head maintenance:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.fjr-tips.org/maint/shb/shb.html" target="_blank">Steering Head Service</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yamafitter, post: 891843, member: 15141"] I don't know if Ray has the seal drivers for doing the fork bushings. Fork seals are easy. If you have never had the folks looked at I would suspect at your mileage on a Gen II the bushings need replacement and you might as well replace the fork seals since the seals will be removed to get at the bushings. You will also need a couple of bottles of your favorite flavour of fork oil. Those of us that have done fork upgrades run a slightly different flavour due to the added valving. We will also need some solvent such as naphtha for cleaning the metering rods and flushing out the tubes. I'm going to suggest that we find a local Owosso supplier and get a 5 gal gas can worth of solvent to clean all the parts we will be doing rather than everyone trying to cart solvent on the bikes. You may also want to consider ordering parts and fork oil in advance and have them delivered to Owosso. Just a thought. I would think fork oil change as a bare minimum. I'm planning on also changing the steering head bearings to the tapered roller design since the forks will be off the bike and this will be the perfect time to work on the steering head. Here is the link on steering head maintenance: [URL="https://www.fjr-tips.org/maint/shb/shb.html"]Steering Head Service[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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