Steering adjustment with spring?

[robin]

According to the book you are supposed to hook up a spring to each side of the fork and take readings,i don't have the spring tool so how do you put the triple tree back together and have it lined up straight with the wheel?

[hubcapsc]

According to the book you are supposed to hook up a spring to each side of the fork and take readings,i don't have the spring tool so how do you put the triple tree back together and have it lined up straight with the wheel?

Daniel Meyer is pretty specific about how the manual should be followed to the letter on
the steering head.

I couldn't deal with the spring tool. I kind of cheated on the disassembly, the steering head
wasn't unencumbered enough to be measured with the spring tool...



I torqued the bearings down like the manual said (first way too much, then back them off, then
to the right amount) and then retorqued them five or ten thousand miles later... they needed
the retorque. That was a lot of miles ago. I can chase the rest of the crowd 85 or 90
miles an hour down the interstate past Mac trucks and my bike tracks true...

-Mike

[Firefighter]

Trying to do everything just right, I finally found a spring scale that I thought would work, so I ordered it. Followed the book when replacing the head bearings and when I used the scale the pull was too much according to the manual. Tried to readjust the bearings several times and never could get the specs the manual calls for, always indicated too many pounds of pull. So I said heck with it and now the scale is buried somewhere in a pile of stuff that I keep but never use. You know that box of stuff that you have and never use.

Bike rides good and the steering seems fine to me.