Cheers Scunny, well as with all my adventures into bike repairs nothing ever goes quite to plan, keeps it kinda interesting I suppose.
Anyhow rebuilt the forks, got half way through the second one and realised I had one of those Oh Oh moments, the sort you get when you realise that there will be spare parts over when you have finished.
It was the retaining snap rings I'd left out, happens when you put half the bits in one container and half in another, no harm done even though the bottom allen bolt was cementing its self forever in a sea of loctite, using lateral thinking and the odd prayer I flipped the dust seals off and fitted the snap rings from the top.
As per normal when I do fork seals the old chestnut of how much fluid to add cropped up again, here in NZ we use mls (millilitres) but the book says either CC's or fluid Ounces!
Googled a fluid measure site and calculated the amount (wrongly as it turned out) it works out to be about a cup of fluid per fork, not very scientific but my late Mother would agree.
Now we come to the wierd bit, the book says there is a "flat washer" on top of the main spring and below the top bolt, mine had 2 flat washers and one from each fork was totally coozed, thin as your fingernail and twisted into the spring? hope they aint vital cos my bike don't have them no more.
