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James, I watched some videos on adjusting the bearing pre load and on those bikes the preload nut was accompanied by a stop nut to lock it in place. Just like the setup on the rear shock. On the RX3 the preload nut is pinched in place by the top of the triple clamp so I would have had to loosen everything up anyway...maybe it would have still worked to hit it but didn’t want to try as I wanted to feel the bearing and apply some grease.
Peter, the bearings felt great so I didn’t feel they needed to be replaced plus this procedure kept me from having to do a lot more work to fully pull the forks and drop out the lower portion of the triple clamp to get to the lower bearing. I’ll check them again for smoothness when I hit 25K and change out the fork oil.
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2017 BMW F800GS Adventure
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