Stupid questions about motorised conveyances

[Drum]

How difficult a job is changing fork seals? Old yam divvy.

[Hooli]

Easy enough if you can get the bolt out the bottom of the forks to split them. Crack it loose before you take the fork caps off is normally recommended. I can do conventional fork seals in about an hour if that comes undone ok.

A broom handle shaped to suit can also get rammed down from the top of the fork (once springs etc are out) to jam the cartridge to free that bolt off. I prefer the other way as a sharp crack on the bolt normally suffices.

[DodgeRover]

If I'm not being thick can't you just put a screw into them and pull them out without stripping the fork leg down. Obviously doing it that way you don't get to clean all the nasty mess out

[Hooli]

You could, but as you say you don't get all the shyte out. Plus I'd bet it's easy to damage the leg with the screw if you're not careful.

[Back_For_More]

Being a thicko and not having done this before - easy enough for a 1st timer?
I'll probably end up googling/you tubing it

[xtriple]

Dead easy. If you have an impact gun, blitz the bolt underneath and it will fly out.

[Jazoli]

You also need a way of driving the new seals into place, I used to use a split bit of 32mm drain pipe to drive the new ones in.

[Hooli]

I use a blunt screwdriver and care, never damaged one yet. A bit of tube would be better though

[Broccoli]

This is a bit of a stretch but…
I was telling the family about the Billy Connolly sketch about the prescription windscreen and his grandma knitting him a balaclava with too small an eye hole.
I can’t find the whole thing. Best is this:

Can anyone find it on the interwebs?
I can’t remember the name of the show.

[Hooli]

I know the sketch you mean, damned if I can think of the show either