Yamaha TRX850 Enthusiasts Forum

Guys

When compressing the forks, there appears to be a notchy (grabs) what every you call it, half way down the travel.
The forks have have work to them about 2 years ago, new springs and oil. ? Not bent.

Do any of you have a simular problem, does this mean a complete strip down to replace the bushes etc?.

Cheers

I've found that adding a shim that fills the gap measured between the distance between the forks (at the axel point) without wheel and spacers / speedo drive attached helps loads in reducing stiction. Mine is a shim out of some gearbox that was in a tray with a bazillion other washer like objects at my buddy's bike shop.

Think of it like this, you slide your wheel and spacers up in there, there's a gap to make this possible, the larger the gap, the more your forks are "bent" in when you tighten up the axel.

Many bikes have "floating clamps" that allow you to tighten the axel, then compress the forks several times to get them in line before tightening the grips that hold the axel to the fork. Unfortunately this isn't the way with our old world design. The shim thing works, just a bitch to fit the extra piece when putting on the front wheel.

Sounds like bushes to me. Mine do it. I don't think it's that big a deal.

Oh, and two years equals how many miles / kilometers in your case? For me, fork oil is like engine oil. The more often you change it, the better it works.

And of course....were the bushes changed with the oil and springs? Unlikely.

Why all this talk about shrubbery? Or might you have a secret political message you are trying to convey my good chap?

Bushings!

Ni! NiNiNi!

Bushings my arse.

Next you'll be talking about dampners and colors.

They are bushes. Or as Yamaha calls them Slide Metal and Piston Metal.

HansJ wrote:Ni! NiNiNi!

And Martin, do with your arse as you wish... I'm sure Yamaha, however odd their "Engrish" might be, does not confuse organic plant growth with metalic objects.

Now what was this you were wondering about colored dampners