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pitted fork legs
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:15 pm
by lawzer
got a friends scooter with fairly badly pitted and roosty fork legs.
it's the one that sat for a few years in someones back garden....
anyway, bothe fork seals are leaking and although i can change the seals i'm worried they'll just pop again.
any remidies for this? fine sandpaper and rub the corrosion off or can they be replated?
Re: pitted fork legs
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:48 pm
by Cossackmannie
If you can be ersed with the spanner work, the stanchions should be cheap enough to justify the swap. Otherwise, it's the usual 1200 wet and dry, araldite, wet and dry scenario which will only last so long. Fine if it's just a wee hack or for punting on but, if it's a keeper, probably worth swapping the stanchions.
Re: pitted fork legs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:31 am
by crankcase
I got both stanchions rechromed on a GS500 I had years ago.
Tried Araldite, liquid metal etc etc. Fine for a stop gap fix.
Couldn't find anybody local and had to send them down to Englandshire.
Was justified compared to cost of new but a scooter ? Likely pretty cheap ???
Sorry can't remember the company but I got the number in MCN.
Re: pitted fork legs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:47 am
by Gazza
I would leave it.
Being a scooter it'll be pretty slow and boring. Having fork oil run down ito the brakes will liven it up no end.
Re: pitted fork legs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:42 pm
by Ninja Winja
I used superglue and wet and dry paper on small pits on an old z250's forks years ago. Did the trick for about a year.
Tried breaking point for scooter forks?
Re: pitted fork legs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:54 pm
by Zax
There was a guy on the site that was set up in business doing chrome an dother plating
I think that I wass Scotty303
Do a search for gold plating he may be able to help.
Re: pitted fork legs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:15 pm
by airwave
Gazza wrote:I would leave it.
Being a scooter it'll be pretty slow and boring. Having fork oil run down ito the brakes will liven it up no end.
Had the cage washed here last week, was covered in "honey grease" from the E-line winch (nasty, sticky stuff) the boys at the local *cof* Detailing workshop *cof* put it up on the ramp and blew Diesel all over / under it to break the grease up.
they then washed it off the paintwork (mostly) I paid them the 5 quid for all 6 of them who'd been on it for an hour and took off back to work.
All was well for, ooh, seconds and seconds 'till I actually had to apply the brakes coming up to the first roundabout ("Circle" for the Dundee massive)
Diesel blown onto yer brake disks fairly prevents wear on them
