Removing The Wheel-Holder Tube - Slider Units; Disassembling The Wheel-Holder Tube - Slider Unit - APRILIA SL Mille Workshop Manual

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7.8.3 DISASSEMBLING THE WHEEL-HOLDER TUBE
- SLIDER UNIT
CarefUlly read 0.4.1 (PRECAUTIONS AND GENERAL
INFORMATIONS), 1.2.3 (FORK OIL) and 2.29 (IN-
SPECTING THE FRONT AND REAR SUSPENSION).
NOTE
The right and left wheel-holder tube - slider units
have the same inner components.
The operations described below are referred to a single
wheel-holder tube - slider unit, but are valid for both.
The operations marked with the symbol
"*"
are valid also
for the fork oil change.
• *
Remove the wheel-holder tube - slider unit, see 7.8.2
(REMOVING THE WHEEL-HOLDER TUBE - SLIDER
UNITS).
• *
Carefully clean the whole wheel-holder tube - slider
unit.
NOTE
Before proceeding with the following operations;
prepare the appropriate special tools
BiD
(A), (B), (C) and
a container with capacity exceeding 550 ern".
The disassembly must be performed very carefully.
• *
Rotate the upper screw adjuster (1) completely anti-
clockwise, in order to reduce the hydraulic braking with
extended unit.
• *
Remove the stop ring (2).
• *
Unscrew and remove the adjusting element (3).
• *
Withdraw the spring preload pushing element (4).
• *
Position the wheel-holder tube
~
slider unit on a vice,
interposing the two half-shells of the special tool (C).
The wheel-holder tube - slider unit is full of oil; do not
overturn or incline it excessively during disassembly.
• *
Loosen the slider upper plug (5).
• *
Remove the wheel-holder tube - slider unit from the
vice.
• *
Keeping the wheel-holder tube - slider unit in vertical
position, unscrew the slider upper plug (5) completely.
• *
Unscrew and remove the threaded pin (A1) from the
tool (A).
• *
Position the fixed part of the tool (A) on the spring
pressing tube (6), so that the tooth fits in the hole.
• *
Position the threaded pin (A1) in the hole on the fixed
part of the tool (A), making su re that when screwed
completely it fits in the hole on the spring pressing tube
(6).
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