The Allen bolts in the bottom of the forks. Sometimes I think those little yellow fuckers did it on purpose.
Agreed, I've never managed to get the broom handle trick to work. Luckily the CB doesn't have them (forks are secured via the screw on chrome cover). If I need to strip the RD forks I'll just stump up for a load of extension bars and use them. I hate stripping forks more than any other job on bikes.
One bolt's too tight to move, the other's mullered. Great. Tomorrow I will be playing with a top quality stud extractor and a rattle gun. I've got the bloody thing running nicely and unseized the seized-solid brakes so I'm buggered if I'm going to spend ages removing two bolts <Cracks knuckles, flexes man boobs>
First thing I do with those is heat up a socket based allen key until it's red hot (orange actually) on an extension bar and just hold it in the bolt head until it cools. Then I do it again before swapping for a cold good quality socket based allen key on another extension bar as quickly as poss attached to a "T" bar. That usually encourages them to move with little effort. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
