Project #5 from Hooda- Springer front fork restore

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So, I have a Custom springer front fork that came with a basket-case bike that I bought a few years back, and it's getting time to get back focused on working on it.



When I got the bike, shown below, It was a bare frame sitting in a guy's garage, and the forks were hanging on the wall, and the rest of the parts were in 5 gallon buckets, in literally every corner of the garage. After a couple hours of sorting, I managed to pick out what was good, and put it together into what you see below.



After about a dozen phone calls and 20 hours of sitting on hold, I was fortunate enough to meet up with a lady at the DMV who was kind enough to guide me through the titling process, but that story is LONG, so, we'll stick with the problem at hand. The fork looks to me to be non-road-worthy, as one of the main tubes going down has been welded, poorly. To compound matters, I have no idea what else has been done to this tube, like if there's a solid piece inside the tube, or another tube inside a tube, or worst of all, if the only thing holding it together is the ugly weld that looks like it was put in with one of those big-box wirefeeders.