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Fork woes in Colorado

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by minturn, Jul 26, 2008.

  1. minturn

    minturn Member

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    Well, I realy screwed this up. I was trying to replace the fork seals on my newly acquired 81XJ650.

    The first one came apart just like it was designed.

    I stripped out the head of the allen screw on the bottom of the fork tube on the second tube. But, I didn't stop there. I proceded to break off an "eazy out" style device in the screw.

    What are my options now?

    Thanks.
    Jim
     
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    wizard Active Member

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    have you got one bullet left in the gun?
     
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    Don't own a gun or a bullet. :)

     
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    MN-Maxims St. Paul Minnesota

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    Check with Partz Guyz there in CO. They have alot of bikes there and would have a fork tube. You could spend the money at a machine shop to remove that screw, but you might be better off to find another fork tube that you could rebuild yourself. Good Luck
     
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    +1, sometimes you just have to admit defeat.
     
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    too bad you arent friends with magneto.
     
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