Awesome Manitou service tutorial
I'm a big fan of Manitou Forks. I have been on them since the Manitou 2 back in the early 90s. They may not be the best forks, and have ...

Working on them is messy for sure and you can poke your eye out or shoot oil across the garge, but for me it's one of those therapeutic flow activities like scraping a snowboard.
Here is a great tutorial I found on working on the forks. The guy really goes into details that I never knew.