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Gen 2 Fork Disassembly - Advice required
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<blockquote data-quote="RossKean" data-source="post: 1455753" data-attributes="member: 19880"><p><a href="https://www.fjr-tips.org/maint/ForkSeal-BushingReplacement.pdf" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Bushing and seal replacement - FJR Gen II</span></strong></a></p><p></p><p>The only thing difficult is getting them apart. The slide hammer approach works great until the middle bushing gets jammed under the top one. Carefully warming the region around the top bushing with a heat gun may be beneficial.</p><p></p><p>If you look at the PDF from Mark John's sit (linked, above), you will see the biggest difficulty with reassembly is the middle bushing. When I did mine the last time, I did not install a middle bushing. This is what was recommended with the Traxxion AK-20 setup I have. Lots of people don't do the middle bushing but Yamaha thought it was necessary. So far, I have had zero issues... YMMV</p><p></p><p>Link to Mark's home page with lots of good FJR info:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.fjr-tips.org/index.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RossKean, post: 1455753, member: 19880"] [URL='https://www.fjr-tips.org/maint/ForkSeal-BushingReplacement.pdf'][B][SIZE=5]Bushing and seal replacement - FJR Gen II[/SIZE][/B][/URL] The only thing difficult is getting them apart. The slide hammer approach works great until the middle bushing gets jammed under the top one. Carefully warming the region around the top bushing with a heat gun may be beneficial. If you look at the PDF from Mark John's sit (linked, above), you will see the biggest difficulty with reassembly is the middle bushing. When I did mine the last time, I did not install a middle bushing. This is what was recommended with the Traxxion AK-20 setup I have. Lots of people don't do the middle bushing but Yamaha thought it was necessary. So far, I have had zero issues... YMMV Link to Mark's home page with lots of good FJR info: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.fjr-tips.org/index.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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