Originally Posted by BrianG

Freezing the trees is going to make the holes smaller. That ain't gonna work!

You want to frees the fork tubes and heat the trees if you want to try this trick.

But as was said above, something isn't right. As soon as I loosened the pinch bolt, each fork slid out under its own weight.

If driving a flat-blade screw driver or chisel in the slot that the pinch bolt crosses doesn't do it, there's really something wrong.

Originally Posted by magna

How did you damage the forks? If you've had a hard accident enough to bend the forks, it's a good bet you've damaged the trees.