I recieved Jason's fork last week and straightened it today. I'm going to divide my post into 3 parts, initial assessment, straighening and final results. If you look at the pic above, Jason's 'before' straightening you'll notice that the left leg is bent back in relation to the right.

So, is the left leg bent back of is the left end bent?

Tools: Var fork jig, dropout/fork end alignment tools, fork/stay straightener, vernier calipers, vice




Assessment:

Fork is placed on flat surface with the shoulders of the crown resting on the surface. Some forks have a more pronounced center section of the crown where the brake bolt goes through thus preventing the crown from lying flat. If your fork is like that place a quarter or 2 under each shoulder.

Pics 2 and 3: Place a stack of pennies under each leg and slide them towads the crown until there's no gap. Notice that in pic 2 the pennies dont go up as far. The left leg is bent back.

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Pics 4 and 5 show height of ends from granite counter top. The number is irrelevant because the steerer isnt level, what's importent is the difference in height.

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Pics 6 and 7 show fork in jig. Fork is placed in jig, T bar rests on crown squaring up the crown, steereer is then clamped firmly in jig.

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Pics 8 and 9 show the end of jig extension. Cross bar on extension slide up and down. I double checked the cetering of the cross bar in pic 9

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Pic 9