Aaargh, 1980 GS850L front fork.

[psyguy]

thanks steve for the tool tip

dismantled my forks today
made this exact tool as per steve's instruction - it worked a charm (1/2" rod, 3/4" nuts)
thanks

What you need to do is make a tool. I used 5/8" threaded rod, 2 feet long and 4 nuts to fit. Jam two nuts together about 1 inch from one end of the all-thead. Jam the other two nuts on the other end, they can be up to about 4 inches from the end with no problem, but if you put them 1 inch from the end, it won't matter which end you stick into the fork tube. 8-[

Now you can hold that socket-head bolt on the inside of the tube and use the smaller allen wrench on the outside.

Here are a couple pictures of the tool:




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