Manitou I ....problems problems problems
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Thanks everyone..
the operating theatre is booked for surgery
the operating theatre is booked for surgery
Sorry for late input to this thread Nick, I've sent some photos to you via WhatsApp. Had a lot going on today and CBA to resize/upload the pics here but two sets of M1 forks I have are identical in size to the M2 I also have, depending on how I hold the caliper to the stanchions varies the measurements within a gnat's c0ck. But they;re all pretty much bang on identical at 28.6mm dia.
Haven't pulled either of the M1s apart yet but I have to do so on one soon. I've got a new set of elastomers, spare seals and compression washers here if you need them ASAP before ordering more from SFP, let me know I'll send them your way.
Hope you find the problem/s!
Haven't pulled either of the M1s apart yet but I have to do so on one soon. I've got a new set of elastomers, spare seals and compression washers here if you need them ASAP before ordering more from SFP, let me know I'll send them your way.
Hope you find the problem/s!
Sorry dude these are going into my forks when I can be arsed to trip them. Offered them to Spud to save him time getting another set if needed. Cost me about $100 from memory, but then the taxman and Royal Mail slapped another #17.00 on top!TOMAS":1a571k4e said:Hi, If Nick doesn't want the Elastomers and they are suitable for a portly 13.5 stoner... I would be interested
Hope that Spud finds the problem.
regan_ev":1ys1ye3c said:Sorry dude these are going into my forks when I can be arsed to trip them. Offered them to Spud to save him time getting another set if needed. Cost me about $100 from memory, but then the taxman and Royal Mail slapped another #17.00 on top!TOMAS":1ys1ye3c said:Hi, If Nick doesn't want the Elastomers and they are suitable for a portly 13.5 stoner... I would be interested
Hope that Spud finds the problem.
Wow they’ve gone up a bit since I bought some 10 years ago.
I looked at alternatives using skate cushions as they are cheap, available and are about the right size with a hole in the middle too.
Carl
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Your right about the skate board cushions / truck rubbers I’ve got a load as they are almost identical to the elastomer in a Girvin Flexstem and come in three grades
[apart from the above the shallow ones make for great dampers on a basketball ring when screwed to the outside wall of the house]
Back to the forks
Aside from needing about 12 per leg they won’t stack all the well being conical at one end - and finally the diameter of the hole in them is to small and doesn’t allow them to move up and down the rod, you’d end up with a different type of Stiction like I have stopping the fork stroke returning fully
Day off today so surgery is planned
[apart from the above the shallow ones make for great dampers on a basketball ring when screwed to the outside wall of the house]
Back to the forks
Aside from needing about 12 per leg they won’t stack all the well being conical at one end - and finally the diameter of the hole in them is to small and doesn’t allow them to move up and down the rod, you’d end up with a different type of Stiction like I have stopping the fork stroke returning fully
Day off today so surgery is planned
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mattr":1wvgnjx2 said:
Employing such advanced technology as the Mantou I fork does, the bushing is the only area I’ve got left to investigate and the primary forcus of my attention - hero or Zero stakes !
When I got them off Andy at Yetifan.com about three years ago he did say they were tight/stiff but I wasn’t phased as I assumed the elastomers had melted and stuck to the internals
Retro Spud":2xvoetnh said:
You can get barrel ones as well as conical
they’ll stack fine and I’d wager probably work as well as the suspension fork parts ones (which I found far too hard).https://www.skatebritain.net/suregrip-c ... K4QAvD_BwE
Carl.
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