Any Tips On Smoothing My Forks Out?

[zanx]

The forks on my Climber are a bit "Donky", by that I mean then need a bit of weight over the front befre they go "donk" and a little more, then they go "Donk" again. When bouncing them furiously they seem ok but they're not too smooth on the low speed stuff. So far I have:

1) Slackened off the yoke pinch bolts and bounced the forks hoping they'd line up.

2) Used a ratchet strap to wind the forks right down, then slackened off the pinch bolts a bit, this helped a bit.

3) Loosened off the axle clamps and shifted them round a bit to see if it would fall into position.

4) All of the above in unison.

Any ideas? They are USD forks that were smooth as silk apparently before I pulled the bike to bits to put in the boot of my car after buying it.

[charliechitlins]

I loosen everything (bottom yoke, axle, fork brace) except the top yoke.

Make sure the tubes are the same height in the yoke.

See how they feel.

Tighten bottom yoke.

Check feel.

Tighten axle & pinch bolts.

Check feel.

Make sure fork brace isn't binding. If it's free to rattle about, tighten it; if not, egg out the necessary holes to keep it from bidning and tighten.

Check feel.

[zanx]

I loosen everything (bottom yoke, axle, fork brace) except the top yoke.

Make sure the tubes are the same height in the yoke.

See how they feel.

Tighten bottom yoke.

Check feel.

Tighten axle & pinch bolts.

Check feel.

Make sure fork brace isn't binding. If it's free to rattle about, tighten it; if not, egg out the necessary holes to keep it from bidning and tighten.

Check feel.

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Thanks, I'll try that over the weekend. It don't have a fork brace BTW, USD forks generally speaking, don't have them.