| Author | Message | ||
     Migs16 |
so the previous owner that had my bike had gotten the forks polished which mean he had to take them off. which is fine. but now everytime i do any small tiny wheelie which makes the front wheel come up right when it leaves from the ground i hear a smack sound which is the weight of the wheel hitting the bottom of the forks. and im not sure if thats normal but when it hits it loosens at the triple tree and ive gone in a tightened it about 3 times with a torque wrench to the proper lbs. but any time i do a little pop up it loosens again. is there any way i can prevent this from happening cuz i can see this becoming alot more dangerous in the future. | ||
| Hammer71 |
Tighten the suspension. Sounds like all of the adjustments have been completely backed out. | ||
| Greg_e |
Problem being that you are not supposed to polish where the triples clamp. If you polish at all aggressively you change the diameter enough that the triples may never tighten again. This slick surface doesn't help either. Only way to fix it would be to have them plated or maybe anodized to regain a little of the lost diameter. You are not the first to report this issue with polished forks. | ||
| Firstbuell |
knurling | ||
| Greg_e |
Knurling might eat away the triples, but it would probably do the job too. Measure a stock set, then measure yours and see what the difference really is. You might be able to make about 0.001 or 0.002 with anodizing but I suspect it will take more than that to fix the problem. | ||
| Gunut75 |
Hardcoat Anodizing is .001 in the material, and .001 buildup average. Regular anodizing is somewhere around .0001-.0002. | ||
| Migs16 |
well im not thinking its that the forks are polished that messed them up. i think its the fact that they took them off and put them back on incorrectly and messed them up. and theres no way that i can get them back on as tight as stock. | ||
| Jraice |
It's easy to tighten ten times more than stock. It's a tube in a clamp. Very simple. It's def the polishing. | ||
| Cycleaddict |
roughen up mating surfaces with emery cloth or sandpaper .(valve grinding compound also works good ,you can even leave a little grit for additional "grip") tighten bolts in a alternating progressive fashion should stop the slippage. | ||
| Tiltcylinder |
Do you mean it's 'topping out' and making the noise? Meaning when the fork goes fully extended, your getting a metal to metal clunk? If that's the case... who knows where the top out bumper is inside our forks? I'd look in my manual, but it's an 09XT... anyone know if it's the same? | ||
| Migs16 |
ya its a metal to metal clunck. and after i hear that there is movement everytime i break i can hear it rattle. after i tighten it it goes away. |
