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<blockquote data-quote="69ST" data-source="post: 172850" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>I went back to view your pix on my desktop monitor and can now see the twist, somewhat. On my phone's tiny screen, it was hard to tell that this is a K0 front end. As for seeing the "wrinkling in the tube"...<em>fuggeddaboudit!</em> That impacts my suggestions. A bent upper fork...which includes the integral lower tree...is pretty easy to see with a K0. And, straightening a tweaked inner (lower) fork leg is a lot easier than with any of the later model hydraulic forks. The pogo stick internals are nowhere near what I'd consider precision mechanicals. </p><p></p><p>That said, I've seen a lot of tweaked K0 upper fork units. They're rarely bent; in a crash, it's the lowers that sacrifice themselves, probably 95% of the time. However, that thin, steel, lower tree is flexible (until everything is assembled & torqued). The upside of this being the fact that the upper legs can be tweaked back into alignment (i.e. parallel from side-to-side) by hand. And as kirrbby pointed out, that may be all that is needed to get the front wheel on the same midline as the rear. </p><p></p><p>OTOH, if your upper/outer fork tubes are bent, it's far easier to just source another upper fork that is still straight. There's no way to straighten the uppers without involving a repaint, so why go through all of the extra effort of wrestling with damaged parts that are easily & inexpensively replaced? It'd be merely a question of whether you prefer paint work with, or without, metal wrangling.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"if it won't go...hammer it"?<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/roflmao.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="Roflmao :ROFLMAO:" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="69ST, post: 172850, member: 5"] I went back to view your pix on my desktop monitor and can now see the twist, somewhat. On my phone's tiny screen, it was hard to tell that this is a K0 front end. As for seeing the "wrinkling in the tube"...[I]fuggeddaboudit![/I] That impacts my suggestions. A bent upper fork...which includes the integral lower tree...is pretty easy to see with a K0. And, straightening a tweaked inner (lower) fork leg is a lot easier than with any of the later model hydraulic forks. The pogo stick internals are nowhere near what I'd consider precision mechanicals. That said, I've seen a lot of tweaked K0 upper fork units. They're rarely bent; in a crash, it's the lowers that sacrifice themselves, probably 95% of the time. However, that thin, steel, lower tree is flexible (until everything is assembled & torqued). The upside of this being the fact that the upper legs can be tweaked back into alignment (i.e. parallel from side-to-side) by hand. And as kirrbby pointed out, that may be all that is needed to get the front wheel on the same midline as the rear. OTOH, if your upper/outer fork tubes are bent, it's far easier to just source another upper fork that is still straight. There's no way to straighten the uppers without involving a repaint, so why go through all of the extra effort of wrestling with damaged parts that are easily & inexpensively replaced? It'd be merely a question of whether you prefer paint work with, or without, metal wrangling. "if it won't go...hammer it"?:ROFLMAO: [/QUOTE]
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