Proper 3 spoke conversion

[rf9rider]

Hi ....... Just to bring myself up to speed .... Is the plan to fit later bottoms to the early steamer forks making fitting the wheels easier ?
Im new to this but very interested
Ta
Chris

Plan is to fit the early Steamer stanchions to the Sprint lowers so he can fit the 3 spoke wheels, as the later Steamer forks are not suitable for the conversion.

[GavD]

Fingers crossed they turn up before xmas as I've pretty much got everything else sorted and this is now holding me up. Got a week off work over xmas and I've been promised a day in the garage to get it sorted.

RF, how have you secured the lower end of the gaitors to the fork bottom, as the sprint ones are bigger and the gaitors don't slide over. Or have you just left them floating?

[rf9rider]

I bought some aftermarket gaiters, they fit nicely over the bottoms without anything securing them.

[rybes]

yeah they look the ones. was just about to add i have a set if you get stuck but you found some  . jus wait till youve finsihed the conversion and go out on it the first time. itll actually stop 

[GavD]

That's what I'm hoping for Rybes, got a tidy set of the 4 pot calipers and a set of venhill lines. Also bought a 5/8ths master cylinder and replaced the internals with new.

Forks on their way, should be delivered Mon. Can't see her indoors letting me crack on with it xmas eve/day, so hopefully end of next week I can get them all swapped over and start building it back up again.

I'm looking at possibly trying to get to the Tiger meet next year, so hopefully I can thank you fellas in person with a pint or two of liquid refreshment.

[Sin_Tiger]

Can't see her indoors letting me crack on with it xmas eve/day,

Bummer all the other kids will be playing with their new toys.

[rybes]

   < GavD on his freshly booted tiger note the grin

[GavD]

Update: Forks arrived yesterday, much earlier than they said.  I was on call last night for the leccy company I work for and ended up working most of the night getting power lines back up, so ended up with some unexpected free time today to tinker.

Right hand fork was no problem, stripped and swapped over to the sprint lowers in about an hour.

Left hand fork not so good -  when I stripped the Sprint fork down a week or so ago the stanchion didn't slide too well and the fork seal retaining spring showed signs of rust which when I got further in had migrated and caused some corrosion further in. Anyway I thought a good clean up might do the trick, but when I put the tiger stanchion in today, there were a couple of tight spots in the travel area. I used the old sprint stanchion & bush to try and work it a bit to see if it freed up a bit, but no joy. And it gets even tighter once you start to locate the top bush in place. So it looks like I'm in the market for a left hand fork leg now.........  one bonus I suppose is that at least last nights overtime will mean there's a bit of cash to pay for it.

World of triumph want £300 for a new 'un, so think I'll be trawling fleabay again.

[rybes]

as the fork bottom is ally i reckon if you got a/some scotchbrite pad and wrapped it round a stick till it was a tight fit in the leg i reckon itll clean up. if it dont work at least it was worth a go n might save ya a few quid. as scotchbrites are plastic it wont damage the ally

[GavD]

I'll give it a go

Ta

[rf9rider]

You could try using some grinding paste on the Sprint stanchion and bush if the scotchbrite doesn`t work.

[Sin_Tiger]

 

You could try using some grinding paste on the Sprint stanchion and bush if the scotchbrite doesn`t work.

You're not having a lot of luck mate  on the bright side, at least it's not slack.

[Bixxer Bob]

You could try using some grinding paste on the Sprint stanchion and bush if the scotchbrite doesn`t work.

You're not having a lot of luck mate  on the bright side, at least it's not slack.

Well, not slack yet anyway. Go easy with the abrading.... yiu can take metal out, but you can't put it back

[akendall1966]

Before you go remove metal on the leg are you 100% sure the stanchion is straight? Slight curve will cause it to tighten the further  it goes into the slider.

[GavD]

It don't matter which stanchion I use, it's tight with all of 'em. Also the bush that was on the bottom of the sprint stanchion that came out of it was not looking too good, almost like the outside surface had some sort of covering that has gone bad in some way.
I'm gonna try some scotchbrite first but i've also bought some fine cleaning past I was gonna try if Rybes's scotchbrite idea doesn't work. I was also considering using toothpaste which is a fine polishing paste.
See pics below for paste and the lower bush.
Any thoughts fellas?

I'm obviously not gonna re-use the bush that came out of the fork, the replacement Tiger ones I bought have much better ones that almost look new.