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Cracked FF3 Lower Link?
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<blockquote data-quote="Elanman39" data-source="post: 163008" data-attributes="member: 5453"><p>Thanks for all your thoughts guys, greatly appreciated. As you suggest she's grounded until I know what's going on, hopefully I'll find time to at least have a closer look with the fork bridge removed later on today. As Timetraveller says I've read they are forged steel somewhere, so a weld repair should be feasible and safe if the kink isn't too far gone in the first place. I wondered the same as Chris, whether it was a high pressure grease gun that burst a weak point (maybe a cold shut equivalent) in the forging. I was only using a small handheld gun so hope it wasn't me, but it's hard to see how else a crack could have formed there between the two bearing bosses; normally I would expect the crack to start at one end or the other where the normal use stresses are highest. I'll post pictures as soon as I have some. If anyone out there has an FF3 they would part with please let me know!</p><p>Grease nipples on the brake cams? Didn't see those..... Good advice regardless, I'll have a look! Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elanman39, post: 163008, member: 5453"] Thanks for all your thoughts guys, greatly appreciated. As you suggest she's grounded until I know what's going on, hopefully I'll find time to at least have a closer look with the fork bridge removed later on today. As Timetraveller says I've read they are forged steel somewhere, so a weld repair should be feasible and safe if the kink isn't too far gone in the first place. I wondered the same as Chris, whether it was a high pressure grease gun that burst a weak point (maybe a cold shut equivalent) in the forging. I was only using a small handheld gun so hope it wasn't me, but it's hard to see how else a crack could have formed there between the two bearing bosses; normally I would expect the crack to start at one end or the other where the normal use stresses are highest. I'll post pictures as soon as I have some. If anyone out there has an FF3 they would part with please let me know! Grease nipples on the brake cams? Didn't see those..... Good advice regardless, I'll have a look! Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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