Front Fork; Disassembly - Triumph 2012 Tiger 800 Service Manual

Front Fork

Disassembly

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Before starting work, ensure the motorcycle is stabilised
and adequately supported. This will help prevent it from
falling and causing injury to the operator or damage to
the motorcycle.
Note:
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Before removing the forks, slacken the top
cap a little to allow easier removal during
strip-down.
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The fork seals can be renewed without
removal of the damping cylinder. Unless
removal of the
necessary, omit steps 16 and 17 of this
procedure.
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If the damping cylinder is to be removed,
loosen the lower damping cylinder bolt
before removing the forks.
Remove the forks <see page 13-S>.
1.
2. Very gently clamp the fork in the soft jawed vice to
prevent it from turning, hold the outer tube, then
unscrew the top cap from the outer tube.
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1. Fork
2. Soft jaws
3. Top cap
Never tightly clamp the outer tube as this will cause the
tube to permanently distort. A distorted tube is not
serviceable and must be replaced.
damping cylinder is
Service Manual Tiger 800 and Tiger 800XC
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Front Suspension
Note:
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The top cap is not under spring tension and
will not spring upwards when the threads
disengage.
3 . Slacken the locknut, unscrew a n d remove the top
cap. If necessa ry, remove the 0-ring seal from the
top cap assembly.
4. Holding the inner and outer tubes together, invert
the fork and pour out the fork oil into a suitable
conta iner. Pum p the damper rod to remove all the
oil.
5. Return the fork to the soft jawed vice.
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While compressing the
protective equipment for the face and eyes and never
stand directly above or look directly down on the fork. If
the spring compressor should dislodge or detach, the
resulting release of spring tension could cause parts to
fly off resulting in injury to the user.
6.
Tiger 800XC only:
spring spacer. Position the two adjustable arms to the
holes in the spring spacer. Screw in the arms until
they positively engage in the spring spacer holes.
Z Using tool T3 880067, manually compress the fork
spring and remove the split collar from below the
damper locknut.
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1. Damper locknut
2. Tool T3880067
3 . Split collar
8. Remove tool T3 880067 from the spring spacer.
Note:
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On Tiger 800 models, an assistant may be
required to remove the split collar.
9. Tool T3 880067 is not required;
Tiger 800 only:
the spring can be compressed by gripping the
spring collar by hand and the split collar removed.
fork spring always wear
Fit tool T3 8 . 80067 over the
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