Got It
The gritty stuff, not nice !!
Will post picture as soon as I worked out how.
Thanks for the warning

Hello Everyone, Just joined the club. A bit about my biking to date.. Back in the day started on the old M***D, an H**** SS50 5 speed :D Worked my way up over the next couple of years, finally arriving in 1979 with a 1977 Z1000a1. A mid-life crisis in 2002 saw a Z900a4 come and go before owning a fe...

So, could someone have simply unscrewed the tops and replaced with the nipple type ones or would this not be possible ?
There is air pressure in the forks.
Could it be a case of unscrewing them to see what's in there ?
Steve

Good Spot
Now that has really put a spanner in the works !
I wonder if a2 tops can still be had, really don't like these thing with the nipples in that are on mine

Hello Garry,
Managed to get into the link on phone.
Does not quote Z1000a2 ?
will order though as you confirmed

At work so link don't work
Thanks for help

Would these fit the Z1000a1 and the 1978 Z1000a2 ?
thanks

Thanks Paul.
I guess I had better get some on order then.
Chrome / Stainless ?
I have only seen stainless, Is there anywhere that supplies chrome ones ?
Steve

Advise please,
Z1000a2 1978
I have a nipple that comes out of the side of my fork tops.
Could i just unscrew the tops and replace with original type, or is that just too easy

Cheers

Hello and thanks, This is the diagram that I have been using, the item in question is 3. As you look from the back of the bike should this be on the left of the adjuster next to the castle nut or on the right of the adjuster next to item 24 as it was when I stripped it. I think it should go against ...

Hello all :) Can someone please advise? I have assembled the rear wheel back into my Z1000a2 and I am not sure whether the spacer washer goes between the wheel adjuster and the castle nut or between the wheel adjuster and the wheel spacer ? It was between the wheel adjuster and the wheel spacer when...