Triple Trees - school me
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Road Master
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well the only reason I consider buying, is i have a pile of parts to sell, so buying and selling would be net a couple bucks, where blasting, and coating will be net -$. only difference i can see if that the stem / trees are of unknown history vs my parts.
The forks will be the toughest, and probably what will keep me from fooling with it all since im still unfamiliar with how they work / go together lol
The forks will be the toughest, and probably what will keep me from fooling with it all since im still unfamiliar with how they work / go together lol
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Last edited by cvaria; Jan 6, 2017 at 09:11 AM.
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Road Master
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well the other problem is immediately, i just went on a spender bender on other parts, so getting into trees, forks and powdering this month might be tough - just saw the price, compared to the multiple hundreds for the ones ive seen on ebay, and figured it would be a good deal on good parts from a fellow member.
If its still there in a couple weeks maybe ill tackle it since its got the rest of this freaking winter with no riding in sight :P
If its still there in a couple weeks maybe ill tackle it since its got the rest of this freaking winter with no riding in sight :P
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The manual did a pretty good job breaking down the fork assembly, this video was also a great help when I did mine. Like he says in the video, its not a Harley fork but it is literally exactly the same as our setup.
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Road Master
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Powder coater said he can blast and coat my trees for about 60-80, so probably easier/ same cost as getting a new pair and selling mine. Plus I can get my strut covers done too.
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Every piece that I've ever had powder coated was originally chromed.
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He said it's hard to get the chrome to break off with blasting and really needs to just be de-chromed chemiclally which he didn't do or it could turn out flakey and uneven.