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What do I do now? Stripped fork bolt
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[QUOTE="Sickboy, post: 1278592, member: 23148"] So now I've done it. After watching some videos on youtube on how to replace fork seals, I decided to give it a go and do them myself since one of mine was leaky and the oil was never changed since I got the bike and probably for long before that. To make a long story short, I couldn't get the bottom bolt loose that holds the cartridge in the fork. After dousing the sucker with liquid wrench and waiting an hour or so, I used a pretty good size breaker bar and couldn't break it free without the whole fork popping out of the vise, so I decided it was a job for the trusty old impact wrench. Now I've got a pretty powerful (450ft-lbs torque) impact wrench that hasn't let me down yet and I thought it'd make a quick job of this. But that little bolt (21mm) just didn't want to come loose, lost the battle and rounded off. So now I'm stuck, I can't get the fork apart. I'm going riding Thursday so I just filled the outer tube back up with oil, and put it all back together. My question is: Is this fixable? and if so, by who?? or should I be looking at getting a whole new fork tube for that side? [/QUOTE]
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