Hello All! Its been a while since I was last here, biking has been on the back burner for a while with the needs of a young family etc. etc. I failed to get my Mondial back together for the Motogiro this year, so took the old 750/900ss instead. Everything went well with the trip apart from a blown fork seal, which is kind of understandable, as the ones on it were original, 33 years and 40,000 miles old. So, I was finding myself rebuilding the non adjustable Showas, using the information from the Haynes manual. I had ordered a rebuild kit via Ebay made by Pyramid, consisting of 4 bushes in total, and 2x seals and 2x dust seals and some assembly grease. All turned up present and correct, so no problems.... Until, I tried to put the top bush on the stanchion back into the slider, and it looks like it won't quite go. The smaller bush appears to fit around the chrome plated part in the notch, but doesn't stay tightly round it, and when you try to put the outer over it, it pushes the bush up the leg. The original bush doesn't do this. I tried tying it tightly with a cable tie, but that doesn't seem to be effective. A search online hasn't turned up any info about this problem. When compressed, it looks to be the right size. Anyone else had this, and how did you fix it?
I had a similar issue. (On Showa adjustable for a 900ss) I raised it with pyramid at the time and they were good and swapped the parts, but the replacements were no better so I bought Ducati original and they fitted perfectly. I suspected/ suggested that their tooling might be worn out. My problem was that when the bushes were fully aligned and fitted in the fork leg, the stanchion was not sufficiently supported and allowed a degree of lateral deflection I was not happy with -worse than the originals I removed in fact. I may have been able to dress the sides of the bushes to get the best compromise fit, but as they fitted in the fork leg, thought it probably would not solve the free movement.
