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It seems I've been a bit too careful. All I needed to do was pulling the spring down a bit to take the pressure from the 18 mm nut. I could unscrew the nut by hand. So I did. Under the 18 mm nut is a smaller red coloured nut with which you can lock the rod. Strange thing is that if you leave space to be able to reach it with a small wrench the 18 mm nut doesn't compress the spring at all and even leaves a bit of space between the white plastic ring and the spring. Maybe I should consider that as a margin for sag.
As you can see in the pics one of the former owners placed a small rubber hose around the rod. Some people just have strange ideas....
Well, it's fixed now, and I'm glad to be able to rebuild the forks.
Thanks for thinking with me
It seems I've been a bit too careful. All I needed to do was pulling the spring down a bit to take the pressure from the 18 mm nut. I could unscrew the nut by hand. So I did. Under the 18 mm nut is a smaller red coloured nut with which you can lock the rod. Strange thing is that if you leave space to be able to reach it with a small wrench the 18 mm nut doesn't compress the spring at all and even leaves a bit of space between the white plastic ring and the spring. Maybe I should consider that as a margin for sag.
As you can see in the pics one of the former owners placed a small rubber hose around the rod. Some people just have strange ideas....
Well, it's fixed now, and I'm glad to be able to rebuild the forks.
Thanks for thinking with me