I'm slowly advancing on my inverted (upside down) fork conversion on the Kat. So I took apart my donor forks, 1st Generation Yamaha R1 Kayaba (KYB), to get an understanding of one, upside down forks, and two, cartridge forks. Everything came off and out of the fork like normal conventional forks except the upper bushing.
How am I supposed to get this bushing out? It looks like it's recessed into a slot. I've already tried banging on it with the fork stanchion, using a wood chisel and using a pick-hook from Harbor Freight with no success.
I've done quite a bit of research on Google using "KYB, Kayaba fork, upside down fork, cartridge fork" as keywords with no success. However, what I did find is some "how-to's" that did show upside down forks with that very top bushing exiting with the rest of the internals. My guess would be that it is from a Showa fork.
I've noticed that the Yamaha fork and a damaged set of Kawi ZX14 that I bought, the forks are of the same configuration. With both forks, the bushing stayed mounted to the fork body. There is no recessed slot on the stanchion itself for this bushing. Both manufactures do use KYB forks. Even though this How-To article on Suzuki TLR fork shows the bushing coming out of a KYB fork. R1 on the left, ZX14 on the right.
So now I'm stuck trying to figure what I can do to get that bushing out.
Any ideas?
How am I supposed to get this bushing out? It looks like it's recessed into a slot. I've already tried banging on it with the fork stanchion, using a wood chisel and using a pick-hook from Harbor Freight with no success.
I've done quite a bit of research on Google using "KYB, Kayaba fork, upside down fork, cartridge fork" as keywords with no success. However, what I did find is some "how-to's" that did show upside down forks with that very top bushing exiting with the rest of the internals. My guess would be that it is from a Showa fork.
I've noticed that the Yamaha fork and a damaged set of Kawi ZX14 that I bought, the forks are of the same configuration. With both forks, the bushing stayed mounted to the fork body. There is no recessed slot on the stanchion itself for this bushing. Both manufactures do use KYB forks. Even though this How-To article on Suzuki TLR fork shows the bushing coming out of a KYB fork. R1 on the left, ZX14 on the right.
So now I'm stuck trying to figure what I can do to get that bushing out.
Any ideas?
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