Puddle Jumper
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Ventura County, CA | I did not change the seals on my Victory, but have done numerous set of other Metric shocks. The easiest thing that I have found in the past is your arms. The springs are nothing like a car spring or strut. I use a vise that is attached to my work bench. It allows me to spin it around and in a 360 degree fashion. So I place it upside down and pointing over the workbench. I then have a couple of plastic L channels that I place over the vice ends to protect the shock nuts from scratching. Loosen 1/2 - 1 turn while still clamped on the bike. This makes it much easier. I then place a bottle jack and a block of wood and some shop towels under the bottom of the fork so the fork only has a few inches of travel. Then use the vise to turn the fork nut the rest of the way off. You should be able to contain the pressure of the spring that way by releasing the pressure on the bottle jack. One safety tip I have learned was to wrap a shop towel around the fork at the top while twisting. That way when it come to the end it will shove the fork down and the towel (as long as you have your hands wrapped around it) will keep it from flying across the floor or if you are not using a vice, it will keep it from shooting up in your face. I have actually found that most forks I am able to just do by hand. However, if it is a fork that I have never rebuilt before, I always use the vise method first to remove the nut. I then try to reinstall using my hand and a shop towel. If that can't be done, then back to the vise and jack method.
Edited by wrk24wheel 2012-04-12 8:28 AM
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