Mike Duluth:
gzus Lloyd, don't hold anything back. lol ::)
Matt Behning:
Thanks for the warm welcome Derision. The cases and bolt thing must be about someone else on some other project. As for the clutch basket that needed to be replaced anyway, on Steve's 954 transmission I rebuilt 3 years ago and is still running, you look at the wear and tell me you're surprised they broke:
I post what I do so others can learn... you can learn from what doesn't go as planned, but in the end you get a result that is great. If you don't like it at least say the truth and put your real name on it.
I stand behind my free work so it's not like I'm advertising a repair service so there's no harm done with your rant.
Matt Behning:
Here's the update on what was wrong with the forks and getting them apart.... on the youtube videos guys are breaking down their good condition forks forks and pulling the two halves apart with ease.
So after 20 years of wear the fork bushings had wore into the form you see below with a heavy ridge. Apparently it was nearly impossible for the lower fork tube's bushing (blue) (that's seated below the fork seal) to slide over the bushing's ridge on fork tube (red).
To the nay-sayers there's no way in hell the two halves would have not come apart without the vice, pry bar, heat, and my PVC (and later wood, to use a buffer between the hammer). I'm glad I did it myself because the shop would have called and either gave up or told me they had to ruin the $100 a piece lower fork cases (that's used price). I saved $300 in the quote on labor I received from Century Motor Sports in Stillwater for the job and I learned how to do my own fork seals on a bad pair of forks.
Deplorable, thank you!:
You are completely delusional!
Just because the bosses have some slight rub marks from the springs does not mean they should have or would have needed to be replaced or broken without ignorance and stupidity involved!!!!!!!
As far as your fork tube issues,,,,, more delusional stupidity. You are so Deluded you don't even realize; The bearing is not supposed to slide over each other to separate the fork, nobody with experience and knowledge that works at any shop or dealership or even private individual anywhere would have had any problems getting the fork apart without a vice, some wood and your pvc. So not only did you not know shit, now you try to claim your fixed something that wasn't even a problem to begin with! Well only to the unskilled, unknowing, unknowledgeables like yourself!
You are so delusional even your delusions are deluded
and nope, it was you with the hammer on the case halves!!!