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I've already found a replacement part on eBay. I'll try salvaging as much as I can by heading to home depot to build a seal driver out of PVC, and get some carb and brake cleaner, and some ATF (cheapo fork oil) at Vato Zone.
Managed to get one of the forks done. Did a lot of housekeeping around the neck of the frame too. Tons of grease and **** from years of never been cleaned.
Half way to the Road King conversion. Some old Z-bars I had on a Sportster:
No idea how this happened but this is the piston out of the rear master cylinder:
The pads were almost new, and the rotor follows that slope a bit. I'm gonna assume some jack-wagon didn't put it back together correctly and this happened, but that's a stretch. It's like the piston was right on the rotor.
Last edited by Mattbastard; Oct 29, 2017 at 07:09 PM.
Managed to get one of the forks done. Did a lot of housekeeping around the neck of the frame too. Tons of grease and **** from years of never been cleaned.
Half way to the Road King conversion. Some old Z-bars I had on a Sportster:
No idea how this happened but this is the piston out of the rear master cylinder:
The pads were almost new, and the rotor follows that slope a bit. I'm gonna assume some jack-wagon didn't put it back together correctly and this happened, but that's a stretch. It's like the piston was right on the rotor.
Found the same looking piston on my 97 FLHT.
Got a kit from HD that had the seals and piston to fix it.
My guess was the piston had been against the rotor at some point.
The fix made a good difference in how the bike stopped.
When I put the fork back together I gave it a few good "po-go's" and noticed it rebounded really slowly over the top most portion of the travel. Maybe the last 1" of travel was really slow compared to everything below it. Also, the fork cap was really easy to install even with a slightly longer spacer. On my way into work it just hit me, the damn damper rod spring is still lying in the pool of old fork oil. I know when I get home today I'm gonna walk over to my work bench and see that damn spring next to the other damper rod for the other fork (with the spring still on that rod).
Thanks everybody. Don't worry about me flaking out on this thread, I'll keep it going until the bike is back under its own power. Nothing pisses me off more than a forum topic just dies out before the story ends.
Edit: Confirmed...
Last edited by Mattbastard; Oct 30, 2017 at 06:42 PM.
Cases already bored out for the 96" motor, but now that I'm thinking 106" it may be going straight back into the box for another cross country trip to Axtell.
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