bigbird 104

Yes I had to change the back up ring as it had lost most of its teflon. I used a piece of plastic drain pipe to drive them in.

When I did mine I changed dust and oil seals and both teflon coated bushes. Oh and oil obviously. As for the tools, I needed them but I wouldn't recommend buying them. I used a bolt welded on to a home made T-bar and a piece of tube with castellations cut in to it.

That's great cheers. The trusty Monty manual left that bit out. Lol

It does cheers Craig, out of interest did you fit the top cap with the fork compressed?

Haha I've been studying that very diagram! Think I'll fit them to the bike and see how it looks. Thanks for the input

Yeah 2000 was the first year of the Showa. The only picture of the Showa forks I've seen, the compression fork is shorter than the rebound! Then it also depends what position the stanchion is in when I put the cap on the compression fork I'm even wondering if the stanchions were different lengths and I've mixed them up somehow but I'm sure I haven't. I've done loads of normal forks in the past but nothing like this.

Hi all, sorry if this is a stupid question but, I'm giving my 2000 315 a full strip down rebuild. I've just rebuilt the forks with new bushes, seals, oil and a new rh fork tube. They all went back together fine but when I stood the forks next to each other, the compression fork seems a couple of inches longer than the rebound fork. Is this normal? This is the first time I've worked on a fork setup like this and I've never noticed this before.