92KK 84WW Olaf
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RS Rider wrote:Why those screws are only 6mm is beyond me-they’re too easy to over-tighten and strip. I had the same issue as you. So that I didn’t have 2 drain screws of different thread diameters, I drilled and tapped them both to 8mm. I can’t remember what their length was but they were just ever so slightly longer than the 6mm ones. I used 2 washers and then torqued them to 7nm (I think). They don’t leak at all.
Even if the 8mm screws protruded into the fork tube a bit you’d have to hit one nasty-ass pothole to bottom-out the stanchions in my opinion.
That depends on where you live. . . . . .
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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles.
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Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
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