Ceriani forks for a '76 Jota

[piranha-bro2]

Lovely forks - but it won't be original any more!

 

[Rob]

What about the Maxton replicas,

You'd be better off talking to Richard at Maxton to get full info. I suspect he would be able to sort what you've got without needing to splash the cash on a replica set. His GP20 conversion is what I've used. It works well.
Cam's suggested way forward likely much the cheapest solution!

 

[helicopterjim]

Lovely thing. Isn't that what Julian stuck on his racer?

Paul

Ooops. Wrong price ..... correct is GP38RD: EUR 1490,-

Jim

 

[Basketcase]

The last 3 sets of Cerianis I took apart all had tight pistons. One of them needed a hammer and drift (bit of old broom handle) to get the piston out.

I have 3 sets of NOS tubes for Ducati GTs bought cheap locally and found somewhat large tolerance on the ID between each set.

 

[Billcampbell]

Thanks everyone for taking an interest. If I come up with a solution I will let you know what I did.

 

[Davo]

Had one seized Ceriani fork and had to hammer the piston out. Got 2 replacements from Wolfgang and they were different diameter to each other with the larger not fitting into the tube and the smaller the same size as the original non seized piston. Got the large one turned down to same size as the smaller. Then decided I would go the Racetech route and really wish I hadn't as the Cerianis worked well when new. The adaptor alone made the forks too stiff as it added their width to the original spring preload. Now have teflon bushes fitted under the adaptor, lighter shorter Racetech springs and polypipe and washers to add preload. Lot of fucking around for no real improvement.

If they were my forks, new pistons machined to correct size and put them back together and just use em.

 

[Naranja]

My ceriani fork is really stiff so I took it apart. Seems like the small circlip in picture is causing some stiction but the real problem is pherhaps what I can’t get out from the tube. A stucked piston? Before I start applying farmers sophisticated banging the hammer of Tor I just want to be sure if this is likely the case and that it can driven out through the lower end?
Sorry couldn’t get a picture from the inside and don’t know much about forks…