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<blockquote data-quote="Mississippi" data-source="post: 336261" data-attributes="member: 3818"><p>Pulled the forks off this morning and found the source of my problem................</p><p></p><p>The fork tubes are bent!!</p><p></p><p>If I lay a straight edge alongside the tubes, I have an 1/16" gap on the left one, and a 3/32" gap on the right one.</p><p></p><p>It is bent enough that my wife can see it without the straight edge.</p><p></p><p>I think that as the bent portion of the tube would enter the lower housing, when the fork compressed, that it put abnormal pressure on the bushings, causing them to wear and become loose.</p><p></p><p>I am not going to disassemble them further until I get new tubes and bushings on hand.</p><p></p><p>I would never have believed that the tubes would bend like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mississippi, post: 336261, member: 3818"] Pulled the forks off this morning and found the source of my problem................ The fork tubes are bent!! If I lay a straight edge alongside the tubes, I have an 1/16" gap on the left one, and a 3/32" gap on the right one. It is bent enough that my wife can see it without the straight edge. I think that as the bent portion of the tube would enter the lower housing, when the fork compressed, that it put abnormal pressure on the bushings, causing them to wear and become loose. I am not going to disassemble them further until I get new tubes and bushings on hand. I would never have believed that the tubes would bend like that. [/QUOTE]
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