Author Topic: Park DT-2 Disc Brake Truing Fork  (Read 317 times)

Offline The Llama

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Park DT-2 Disc Brake Truing Fork
« on: July 21, 2009, 08:59:06 PM »
Tired of that constant squeak or other noise from your Disc Brakes? Want to get rid of the power robbing rub when you are racing? then get the Parks DT-2 Disc Brake Fork!!

Sure you can use a adjustable wrench but doing that can actually make your rotor worse in the long run, (believe me, I've done it  :undecided:).

 Most warps are cause but the metal bending, usually in one of the legs down by the hub. using a Adj wrench you make another bend farther out by the braking surface to counter act the real problem. you've just "S" bent the structural arm of the disc.  Now the disc is no longer flat but sorta shaped like a hat. In the long run you have gone and made the little arm weaker and more prone to warping out again. Eventually you just get tired of playing with it and give up or just learn to ignore it.

But you don't have to put up with those annoyances! With the Park Truing Fork the slot is long and deep so you can get leverage down closer to the hub resulting in a true and flat disc. Also with a wrench you can end up putting a little dent in the braking surface which basically makes the rotor garbage and you'll have to grind it out or just replace the whole disc. (been there, done that) :-[ This fork wont make a scratch in the rotor... it's all good!!

I give this thing a 9 out of 10 (I took one off because it's a little pricy for a piece of bar stock with a few slots cut in it, oh wait, it has Parks name on it  :undecided:)

If you look around you can find it for under 15 bucks.!!(tree Fort Bikes has it for $13 bucks right now)

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Re: Park DT-2 Disc Brake Truing Fork
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2010, 12:18:00 PM »
I just use a crescent wrench or channel locks in a pinch.
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Re: Park DT-2 Disc Brake Truing Fork
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2010, 12:57:08 PM »
I just use a crescent wrench or channel locks in a pinch.

yup, done that myself, but more than once I have (and seen others) damage the face for the brake surface, and also it doesn't go down far enough toward the hub to prevent "dishing" the rotor. Almost everyone's wheel I have put on my wheel truing stand that allows for disc brake truing, they have dished their rotor...(basically bent it out of true with the hub...)
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