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I'm trying to get the forks disassembled but no joy.  I have the snap ring and washer removed but neither one will come apart, even with heat. I tried compressing the spring and allowing it to snap back with a slide-hammer action and then tried pulling on the upper tube.

*** these are the later KYB forks that do NOT have the threaded collar under the dust boot.***

Is there a bolt inside the fork that has to be removed first?

I got it. The only thing holding the slider in the outer tube is the snap ring above the seal and washer, no other fastener needs to be removed. The right fork came apart with lots of heat from a hot air heat gun and *a lot* of slide hammer action from compressing the spring and letting it release.

The left side was very badly stuck. I had to step up to heating the seal area with a propane torch and that didn't work either. I heated it again until the seal started to char and even then it took hundreds of compress/snap back cycles until it finally inched its way out a little at a time. Unfortunately, the inner slider has a bad rust spot in the seal travel area at the fully extended position and is not usable.

I was hoping to ride this MX80 around Vintage Motorcycle Days but I have a ton of work to do on it and VMD is only two weeks away.