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[QUOTE="Red_Chili, post: 1010242, member: 65383"] Thanks guys. This board is as helpful as my other favorite board for my other life, 4x4wire.com/Toyota Trucks forum. In other words, pretty dadgum intensively helpful! Thought I would post my experience in case others do a search in future. I located a 14mm allen | 5/8" allen combo slug at an Ace Hardware near home, A&A Tradin' Post Columbine (in case anyone else near Littleton needs one). They had 3. $1.50, I think MAYbe the gal might have guessed wrong on the price. The forks came apart without fanfare; compressing them slightly does hold the cartridge enough. I did find a little splooge even though I had drained the forks overnight, so the comments that disassembly really is a good idea just to clean things out are spot-on. While I was at it, I went ahead and removed two shims from the valve body for a remaining total of 8. Note that the narrow washer (not a shim, but a washer) goes on the BOTTOM of the stack. Easy to miss, easy to put on the top, not covered in the FSM. Sticking the 14mm slug in the vise makes a great holder to work on the valve body BTW. Careful not to lose the dadgum spring. On reassembly, temporarily sticking the springs in and compressing slightly is enough to hold the cartridge for tightening with an impact. Oh, and if you are like me and I know I am, you forgot to buy a new copper washer. No worries, anneal the copper with a torch till it glows, let it cool, works like new. I chose to use my PVC driver to first drive in the bushing/washer. This let me verify that there was no play (woo hoo, saved a buck). I then slathered up the inner tube with Valvoline moly-disulphide wheel bearing grease, slathered up the fork seal, and CAREFULLY slid it into position. I drove it in place. Finally, I drove the dust seal in place. I just figgered it was a better idea to do these separately, no sense pounding on a seal more than you have to. Snap the clip in, I'm golden. I made an oil level tool out of aluminum tubing, a suction ball, and some fuel line to join them, and marked measurements in 10mm increments. Works dandy. I made a damper rod puller-upper-thingie out of 1/2" weldable steel tubing (happens to be just about 10mm ID) and an M10x1.0 nut. Temporarily locate the nut with a M10x1.0 bolt and tack weld, you're done making it. Also works dandy. I used the large black Daystar fork boots to help give my green ride a purple-ectomy. Job done, much learned, thanks all! [/QUOTE]
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