Hi, my Nephew has a 24" Orbea with some basic ~4 ton in weight Suntour M3010 forks. Putting aside how they will never be anything more than barely functional, they have an inch or so forward and backwards movement at the drop outs and have probably never been opened. Looking at this diagram they seem to use a sleeve instead of conventional bushes like proper forks.
For the sake of £14 for a pair of part 2b (which comes with the 2c o ring) is it going to be worth replacing them? Looks like remove lower nuts and the lowers will slide off, change these sleeves, slap in some grease, refit lowers?
Only other option that springs to mind as he needs rim brakes is a suitable rigid fork with a larger front tyre which would probably be as affective and a lot lighter. He will be on a bigger bike probably 26" wheeled in a year or so therefore just looking at cheap options now
thanks
I have replaced a few sleeves under warranty due to excessive play, it made them better, but not perfect. Easy to fit. Remove the garter spring before you lever out the seal so it does not get kinked
Clean and liberal grease of the seals (I used Sram butter) and sliders did make a big difference to the force required to compress the fork.
We used to get Suntour spares from Greyville, they currently show in stock but I think you need to order through a distributor.
Garter spring? Is that inside the sleeve? They are a few years old and he got the bike second hand, probably never been opened so as so cheap I will swap them out, got to be an improvement and I have some butter already
thanks