Home Made Special Tool For Fork Strip.

BATEBY45 · Apr 23, 2018

To extract the damping cylinder from Trophy forks I used a 30 mm hex nut clamped onto a piece of 12 mm studding with a couple of lock nuts and two more to hold against the torque of the 10 mm hex key from the bottom end. You would be amazed at the amount of crud that comes out even if the oil is changed occasionally.
The official tool is 3880090.

MrOrange · Apr 23, 2018

Pictures? Would help others make one up, thanks.

dilligaf · Apr 23, 2018

£3880090
Yeah I’d rather make my own as well

Oldyam · Apr 23, 2018

If you use 20mm threaded rod you just need 4 std nuts ( 30mm AF ).

Cut the rod 18" long and Lock 2 nuts together at each end Job Done

BATEBY45 · Feb 17, 2019

Seal on right leg leaking so I thought I would try the self tapper seal removal trick.
I used a long series (4" long) 3 mm drill bit in a cordless drill, then two 1" long screws and inch the seal out a bit at a time with a crowfoot lever ( like a "J" shape)
While the camera was out I took pics of the special tool for taking the forks apart.