
I changed my oil at 63,000 miles and I still don't believe the amount of crap in it. You'll need to compress the spring while you thread and tighten the cap onto the rod. The extra pair of hands holds the rod up with a coat hanger, while you put the spring, washer(s) and spacer back. The assembly of the right fork is complicated by the rod which falls down into the fork. To drain the right fork, collapse the fork and pump the plunger rod. To drain all the oil from the left fork, you pump the fork. You remove the spring, spacer and washer same as the left side, remembering the sequence they go back. Once the right side cap is removed the plunger rod will slowly fall down into the fork.


The right side fork cap is attached to the plunger rod for the cartridge and has to be unscrewed from the cap. The left fork cap comes right off, then you take out the spacer, washer and spring, turn upside down to drain the oil.

When you have gotten the forks off, the first thing to do is to remove the fork caps, carefully they're spring loaded.
