As an aside - I was changing my front fork oil on an FJ1200 with my Dad one day in the garage. He's got the fork tube removed, and in his hands. He's sitting on the floor, with the bowl of drained oil between his legs. He says "I can't get the upper & lower apart. What does it say?"

I read the manual, and get as far as "With a gentle hammering motion...", and he rams the fork tube downward with as much forces as he could muster. Well, he hit the inside lip of the oil bowl.

I tell you, everything happened so fast, it was almost instantaneous. It was like that Pizza Pop commercial where the guy tries to eat one in a car and it explodes. The second my Dad hit the bowl, the oil sprayed all over the wall behind him, along with his entire body from the waist up.

What was funnier still, was that the bowl landed perfectly on his head, and I couldn't see his eyes for all the oil running down his glasses. Man, it was like somebody threw a fork oil grenade in there. All he could mumble through a closed mouth was "Get me a f*****g paper towel."

And, being the good son that I am, I ran in the house to grab my Mom & wife so they could come out and laugh hysterically as well.

Cannon

 

Well, I tried each and every single one of your suggestions!!!! I had high hopes for filling the fork tube to the top with the hope of floating the pencil to the top but no joy. I think the pencil hung up on the spring.

I fianally removed the fork tube and dumped everything out the top and pencil came with it. Not a bad task - took me about 40 minutes for r & r. Have a grear Sunday, all.

Eric
95 RK, 07 RK (hers), 09 RK.

 

You gotta luv some of the dumb things we manage to do...

 

I feel your pain. I was checking piston TDC one time, and stuck a 1/4" dowel down in the spark plug hole to watch the piston travel... dowel cocked sideways and broke off in the cylinder. had to pull the rockers and heads to get the f&*king piece of dowel out... stupid is as stupid does.

leave the pencil in... its a bump stop !

 

So next time you'll tie a string to your tool, right?

 

Damn! just don't tie it too tight or you'll cut off the circulation!