vulgar1 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 What size is that Allen bolt in the bottom of the fork? 5mm or 6mm?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer JZH Posted September 13, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted September 13, 2016 M8 socket caps take 6mm hex. Â Ciao, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer VFROZ Posted September 13, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted September 13, 2016 5 hours ago, vulgar1 said: What size is that Allen bolt in the bottom of the fork? 5mm or 6mm?  Why? Were you thinking of just buying 1 Allen key?  I know there is many opinions on this subject, but to me there is only one way of doing this properly. All that angst and guessing to save 10 minutes worth of wok removing the forks. Why bother?  I did my apprenticeship under an old Polish bloke who used to drag me around the workshop by my ear when he caught me trying to take a short cut. He would say " What's this shagger? If you're going to do something, do it properly, if you're not going to do properly, don't do it " and then give me a kick up the arse for my troubles. I now see he was right.  Pull them out and you get to clean them properly, inspect everything, add whatever oil height you want with both forks done accurately, and know that everything went in the way it was and torqued correctly.  By the way, when I was using the stock 01 forks with 0.95 springs and rebound and compression gold valves, I found 110mm of 7.5 oil was the best setting for me.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgar1 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I just needed an extended one for the impact gun. I am going to be installing a DMR kit this weekend. Trying to cut down on the runs to the store during the project. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgar1 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 After sort of doing this over the weekend I can't really see why you wouldn't just pull the forks off the bike. Honestly it's not worth the hassle to do this with them still on. Too easy to mess the bolt up. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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