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Old 23-06-2020, 02:00 PM   #16
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Edit: this has been discussed before, but the comment #12 here may be a concern:

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Old 23-06-2020, 02:01 PM   #17
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"We appear to have gone slightly over budget on this project again. The client wants to know what was the aluminium and miscellaneous tooling charges for again?"
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Old 23-06-2020, 02:32 PM   #19
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Edit: this has been discussed before, but the comment #12 here may be a concern:

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I didn't find that when I searched
Thanks Darkness

Mmm, bit of a bugger that.
I've discovered Ducati still sell the Marzocchi assembly, but it's over £400.

I wonder how much you have to warm up the casting to get it off easily?

Anyone have a set of Showas to sell?

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Old 23-06-2020, 04:31 PM   #20
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Worryingly I've also just read that you can't remove the damper rod on the Marzocchi legs.

I'm not sure how that works as even the new Ducati ones come without them.

Somebody must know the solution to this.

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Old 23-06-2020, 04:32 PM   #21
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Worryingly I've also just read that you can't remove the damper rod on the Marzocchi legs.

I'm not sure how that works as even the new Ducati ones come without them.

Somebody must know the solution to this.

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Buy a pair of Showa adjustables, or Öhlins?
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Old 23-06-2020, 04:49 PM   #22
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Darkness, I'd quite happily buy some Showas, but I remember trying to find the ones in my SS was a nightmare.

I may have to go down that route, but also change to the later Calipers at the same time as my Calipers with 40mm mounting holes make it even more difficult to find some.
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Old 23-06-2020, 05:20 PM   #23
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Darkness, I'd quite happily buy some Showas, but I remember trying to find the ones in my SS was a nightmare.

I may have to go down that route, but also change to the later Calipers at the same time as my Calipers with 40mm mounting holes make it even more difficult to find some.
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Old 24-06-2020, 07:56 PM   #24
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I spoke to a couple of suspension Gurus today who both told me these forks can't be taken apart.

That the Damper rods are swagged into the bottom of the tubes, and that the bottom casting is pressed on and couldn't be taken off.

I think the truth is that everybody just dismisses these forks, and says the only way to go is with the Showas.

So......................
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I shouldn't be able to do this then:



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Old 24-06-2020, 08:03 PM   #26
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I'm lucky enough to have a spare leg with very damaged chrome hanging around so thought I had nothing to lose.

I undid the bottom bolt and tugged on the damper rod which wouldn't move.
So I put the bolt back in a few threads and gave it just one gentle tap with a drift.

That knocked the hex in the bottom of the damper out of it's location hole in the leg:

Then I clamped the leg in the soft jaws of my vise, warmed the casting up quite a lot with a blowlamp, put a steel bar through the spindle hole and admittedly gave it some rather large whacks.

I had to re-heat it a couple of times, but it did come off.

The end of the damper rod for anyone whose interested:


Think I'll order a new tube and give it a go rebuilding my original leg.

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Old 24-06-2020, 08:17 PM   #27
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So your chroming it now or what
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Old 24-06-2020, 08:30 PM   #28
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So your chroming it now or what
If only I could re-chrome it myself.

I don't want the bike to be out of action for the 2.5 - 4 weeks the rechrome specialists are quoting, so will order a new tube from the link I posted earlier in the thread and try to fin that to my exiting casting.

Annoyingly the one on the spare leg shown is a Left hand one and I need a right hand one.

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Old 28-10-2021, 03:43 PM   #29
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I should have updated this thread to say that the leg went back together OK with a new tube.

I left the new tube in the freezer for a couple of hours, warmed up the bottom casting, and it didn't take much to tap it back on the new tube.
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