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My PO had some how crushed the air valve for the fork. A simple replacement you might think, however, as common as the valve is to all Yamaha bikes made with air forks
, it is none the less not something you can find at the dealer.
So, I took a look at it and thought, lets just bend it back into shape, well, the brass bent and then broke. So I now had an air valve with a hole in the sealing surface, not much good. Then, the light went off, brass....I have soldered alot of brass to copper pipe. But, I do not have an air valve tool and did not want to torch the rubber in the valve.
So, soldering gun came to mind for electrical repair. So, I took a piece of old gasket material laying around and fitted to the inside diameter of the threaded ring, and took my soldering gun and solder and filled the hole. This left me with a glob of solder on the outside which I then filed down to about the major diameter of the threads.
Remounted the valve, and it sealed to let me put air back in my forks!!
And as a bonus, it was soft enough that the cap threads recut the threads into it no problem!!
, it is none the less not something you can find at the dealer.So, I took a look at it and thought, lets just bend it back into shape, well, the brass bent and then broke. So I now had an air valve with a hole in the sealing surface, not much good. Then, the light went off, brass....I have soldered alot of brass to copper pipe. But, I do not have an air valve tool and did not want to torch the rubber in the valve
. So, soldering gun came to mind for electrical repair. So, I took a piece of old gasket material laying around and fitted to the inside diameter of the threaded ring, and took my soldering gun and solder and filled the hole. This left me with a glob of solder on the outside which I then filed down to about the major diameter of the threads.
Remounted the valve, and it sealed to let me put air back in my forks!!
And as a bonus, it was soft enough that the cap threads recut the threads into it no problem!!
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