Grey Sickle
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Thought someone may be interested in how i changed it, sorry if this has been on before.
got the BJ from a bmw breakers, they managed to get me a stiff one..oh er.
tools were a 1 13/16 spanner, although a 46 would be better, a couple of meter lenghts of scaffold and a 2m garden fence post.
Remove wheel, mudguard, and brake gubbins from forks. undo 21mm from top of BJ and 14mm from fork tops. the front end falls out so support carefully. I didnt touch the lower fork brace or the fork oil. laid the unit on the carpeted garage floor and used the fence post between the fork legs to resist twisting. The spanner with extension nicely undid the BJ. I then slid the post through the legs to its other end to resist tightening forces, although i placed some wood under the forks to keep the brake lugs from touching the floor. again the BJ did up nicely and i used luggage scales to give the correct 230nm of tightness, ie approx 0.8m x 29kg.
Anyway thats what i did and it seemed to work ok.
got the BJ from a bmw breakers, they managed to get me a stiff one..oh er.
tools were a 1 13/16 spanner, although a 46 would be better, a couple of meter lenghts of scaffold and a 2m garden fence post.
Remove wheel, mudguard, and brake gubbins from forks. undo 21mm from top of BJ and 14mm from fork tops. the front end falls out so support carefully. I didnt touch the lower fork brace or the fork oil. laid the unit on the carpeted garage floor and used the fence post between the fork legs to resist twisting. The spanner with extension nicely undid the BJ. I then slid the post through the legs to its other end to resist tightening forces, although i placed some wood under the forks to keep the brake lugs from touching the floor. again the BJ did up nicely and i used luggage scales to give the correct 230nm of tightness, ie approx 0.8m x 29kg.
Anyway thats what i did and it seemed to work ok.
