The fork compression damper adjusters are both seized on my Gen1. There have been suggestions about freeing them up but I am considering replacing them. The parts list I have does not show the adjusters so I have a few questions:
Do the whole assemblies just unscrew from, and then screw in to, the fork leg (surely they locate with some mechanism)?
Are they expensive to buy?
Does anyone have a parts list which shows them?
Have not started the job yet but the bike shakes it's head sometimes and I don't know where the adjusters are set :'( .
you're not the first to have hit this problem. They don't sell the item separately (i did a thread on this issue, having written to Yamaha and been fobbed off, a couple of years back - see below) and will only sell them as part of the fork lower assembly. So far as I know no one else (like K-Tech) does a replacement either.
In the end i had to go to a breakers yard to get a replacement that wasn't seized. What irritated me a little was that, somewhere in Japan, there's a box full of these things...
http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,236.m...ml#msg1354
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Steven Wright
Wow. That'll be why they are not shown then. So are they removable/servicable?
BTW I sure will email Yam using your email address from your other post.
they're removable, sure - just (carefully) unscrew it - but my seized one wasn't repairable, i tried; soaked in penetrating oil etc. eventually the brass screw just got mangled.
If everyone wrote to Yamaha they might shift their position a little...?
Just a thought.
Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
Steven Wright
I had seized ones on a 21'000 mile bike i owned a few years ago. Gave it to bike shop to free off and the idiots heated it so much that the whole unit rotated, not the brass screw. This was after me soaking it with freeze spray,heat spray, silkopen etc.. Sometimes it ain't going to free off, so a new bottom leg is required
If it's broken, it's not fixed.
