Dropping forks with rear stand & car jack?

[851]

Before I do something stupid ... what is the best method to drop the forks in the triple clamps without having a front stand or some ceiling hoist? I was think of using my rear stand and a car jack with wood underneath the engine.

Another question, I am presume it is just a case of loosening, equally lowering and then tightening the triple clamps ... no need to removal wheel and therefore no issues if I twist one fork cf to the other.

[unfast1]

Originally Posted by 851

Before I do something stupid ... what is the best method to drop the forks in the triple clamps without having a front stand or some ceiling hoist? I was think of using my rear stand and a car jack with wood underneath the engine.

Another question, I am presume it is just a case of loosening, equally lowering and then tightening the triple clamps ... no need to removal wheel and therefore no issues if I twist one fork cf to the other.

That's exactly what I did.

[Monstaman]

Originally Posted by 851

Before I do something stupid ... what is the best method to drop the forks in the triple clamps without having a front stand or some ceiling hoist? I was think of using my rear stand and a car jack with wood underneath the engine.

Another question, I am presume it is just a case of loosening, equally lowering and then tightening the triple clamps ... no need to removal wheel and therefore no issues if I twist one fork cf to the other.

Just do one at a time, undo the bolts and quietly rotate the leg backwards and forwards until your height is reached then torque the bolts back up.

[AXE]

I have two methods. My Dad built a couple of jack stands that work with my frame sliders to hold the front wheel off the ground for changing tires. The second method I used for setting the rear sag on my bike was to stradle the bike with a heavy duty aluminum ladder (Little Giant in my case), then lift the bike with a pair of soft ties and a heavy duty ratcheting tie down.

Out!

[colacin]

I tried this very thing the other day and found there was no way to get the forks moving without making the bike too unstable on the jack. In the end I put some jack stands under the frame sliders and used a bit of water around the fork legs to get them moving - it is a pretty close fit.

[infidel]

On my other bikes i remove the front wheel and the top triple and do it one leg at a time. That way you don't mark your fork tubes and it makes it alot easier as a one man job. The holes in the top triples are normally smaller in diameter then the forks, so they grip the tubes a bit even when you take the bolts out. So you have to pry the triples open a bit.

On the hyper i don't have a pin tool to remove the top triple, so i left it on. I use a steering stem lifter to hold the bike.

[st2lemans]

Rear stand is all you need. No need to remove front wheel or top triple.

Tom

why are you dropping the fork in the clamp??


also at the track , i used my friend dirtbike stand, put the hyper on it, and with tie down tied up the bike to the stand to keep it from moving....it did work very well...

[iwoolie]

I put a tow bike hooks in a beam above the bike then use 2 ratchet straps from the bars to the hooks. I like this because you can't nock the bike over / I sent my forks to race tech and left the bike there for a week no worries.
woolie

[MichMonsterS4]

Originally Posted by iwoolie

I put a tow bike hooks in a beam above the bike then use 2 ratchet straps from the bars to the hooks. I like this because you can't nock the bike over / I sent my forks to race tech and left the bike there for a week no worries.
woolie

that's what I do too