dirtbag
Triumph RAT
Saw the post here how to remove fork seals and replace . I just did mine . I have a 2015 triumph tiger 800 xcx ( wp 43mm ) I did order the best parts for this job. motorex fluid (oe wp )2 qts 40 $ seal kit ( oe )40$ motion pro seal driver 45$ Removal and seal install went fine (used a heat gun ) But the fill and bleed was nightmare .The problem being there are many different forks with many different insides . After spending a lot of time trying to bleed and looking at a shit load of youtube videos. I kept getting fluid squirting out of the top of one damper but not the other because both fork tubes are different ( one rebound and the other compression ) I did find one video that showed my style of forks and showed that you hold down on the long thin damper adjuster inside tube as you fill and bleed .and almost no bleed was needed ,I and found the spec for fill level on the tiger 800 uk.co form . ( all other videos had complicated bleeding and did not have any info on the center thin tube installed or removed or if it should be part of the bleed , because the style of forks were very different and most were newer designs 48mm )My fork is more like a 10-15 year old ktm dirt bike fork, very simple. I used a simple tape measure and as it broke the surface tension of the top of the fluid level it was easy to measure the level from the top of the fork tube.
so take you time and do you best to find the info on your fork style otherwise you will be lost like I was.
so take you time and do you best to find the info on your fork style otherwise you will be lost like I was.
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