Fork Oil Seal Replacement Tooling Questions

[renobruce]

Here's your tool for getting at the hex nut in the tube:





Add enough extensions to use a ratchet. Some spark plug sockets won't let you put the extension on backwards, but a Craftsman socket will.

[salty_monk]

Reasonably.... You can do it with a SEARS Craftsman socket that has the 19mm hex & about 1.5 foot of extension bars (one of those cheap $10 3 packs will do it).

You can also get a length of stud & lock 2 nuts together on it at both ends (or weld them) & use that. I forget what size stud you need to get near to a 19mm AF nut but it's probably something like 5/8"

Dan

[Sandy]

I just use a 2 foot long piece of 1/2 threaded ready-rod with nuts double nutted on each end. If it's long enough you can just stick it in a vice which makes it easier to work on.