The only difficulty dismantling modern fork legs is to hold the damper tube while undoing the bolt that retains it in the bottom of the fork lower tube. To make this easy I welded a 30mm nut to a section of tube see diagram. Tube diameter doesn’t matter much, mine is made from a piece …
The first step is to get the throttle slides both opening at the same time. This is easy when the carbs are off the bike and I always check this when I have them off. It’s a bit harder on the bike especially with splayed heads. The way I do it is wind the throttle …
The trap in the crankshaft is hard to remove but is a must do whenever the bottom end is apart. I learnt this lesson as a youngster when I rebuilt my 500 Trophy in a corrugated iron lean to at the back of the commune (yeah alright, bloody hippies, but this was in the very …
If your 650 engine no is between DU44394 and DU887147 then you can reduce running temperature and therefore extend engine life at no cost, next time you have the crankcases apart. From DU44394 an oil pump with better scavenge capability was introduced and after DU887147 the crankcase oil level was increased by shortening the length …