Rusted fork stanchions?

laurenceparkins

Just taken my Sr Suntour XCT V2 forks apart to troubleshoot some stiffness, and discovered that the chrome (or whatever it is) on the fork stanchions is rusted fairly badly (see pics).

Unfortunately new forks are quite expensive, so is there any way I can remove the rust from these? Failing that, what are the current cheapest MTB forks around? The £40 you can find these for on ebay is the upper limit of my budget. Cheers!

cooldad

Dead but with that budget I would just put them back together, live with it and save up for decent forks.

turnerjohn

their properly sh*gged
second hand with care tho and your budget is very very limited.
my bro sold a set of RST Mozo pro's on fleebay for around £30...not a great fork granted but would have sorted your problem out !
just have a strole through it

slickmouse

A QUICK look on ebay, revealed XCTS brand new from 23 quid, second hand for about a fiver
XCMs brand new from 30 quid
XCRs brand new from 60 quid

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SR-SUNTOUR-XC ... 43bf64e3c1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suntour-XCR-L ... 4d0cafde33

id push the boat out and get the XCRs if i was you !