Fork air gap

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Fork air gap

Post by Savav2v1 » Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:51 pm

Hello folks

Looking at changing the fork oil on ye old kat,would anyone know or suggest the air gap measurement

Many thanks
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Re: Fork air gap

Post by Kryten » Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:33 pm

Hi. According to the info I have. The measurement is 221 mm, which I read as the air gap.
This should be equal to 227ml.
I set mine at that with the springs out and the suspension compressed. I did a write up for the newsletter a while ago. But that might have been on the old forum.
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Re: Fork air gap

Post by Jonty » Sat Oct 08, 2022 7:11 pm

Savav2v1 wrote:
Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:51 pm
Hello folks

Looking at changing the fork oil on ye old kat,would anyone know or suggest the air gap measurement

Many thanks
Great video on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEv_fCMi90

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Re: Fork air gap

Post by Savav2v1 » Sat Oct 08, 2022 9:29 pm

Kryten wrote:
Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:33 pm
Hi. According to the info I have. The measurement is 221 mm, which I read as the air gap.
This should be equal to 227ml.
I set mine at that with the springs out and the suspension compressed. I did a write up for the newsletter a while ago. But that might have been on the old forum.

That’s great,thanks for the info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEv_fCMi90

Yes great video,thanks very much for sharing

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