PDA

View Full Version : Fork seal again

dirtydog
19-11-07, 09:48 PM
I'm in the process of putting in new fork springs and respraying the fork bottoms as they're looking pretty manky as well as replacing the dust caps as they looked like this...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0139.jpg

and just wondered if it's worth doing thew fork sealsd whilst the forks are off the bike? They're not leaking but look like this

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0140.jpg

what d'ya reckon replace or go with the if it aint broke train of thought?
Sid Squid
19-11-07, 10:03 PM
Well, it's clearly not leaking - wouldn't have that rusty mess in there if it were.
The rust, as I'm sure you know is the retaining circlip, the amount it has rusted certainly suggests the the shroud is knackered and letting water in.
FWIW I'd leave it and fit a new shroud.
dirtydog
19-11-07, 10:36 PM
Well, it's clearly not leaking - wouldn't have that rusty mess in there if it were.
The rust, as I'm sure you know is the retaining circlip, the amount it has rusted certainly suggests the the shroud is knackered and letting water in.
FWIW I'd leave it and fit a new shroud.


I figured it was the retaining clip. I've got some new dust seals to go on when ive finished respraying

I'll leave the fork seals in the packet then. :cool:
dirtydog
01-12-07, 11:26 PM
A vast improvement over what they did look like

From this

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0138.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0137.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0139.jpg


To this

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0165.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0146.jpg
Lozzo
01-12-07, 11:30 PM
How much are the dust seals, cos mine look like yours did.
dirtydog
01-12-07, 11:41 PM
About £15 I got them from www.wemoto.com (http://www.wemoto.com) not sure if that's the cheapest place to get them from but i was ordering some other bits
drefraser
02-12-07, 12:21 AM
Do you ride through salt marshes on a regular basis by any chance?
Lozzo
02-12-07, 01:00 AM
My K3 was ridden 26,000 miles through every imaginable type of weather every day for 3 years, so bearing in mind the only thing I need to replace because of corrosion are these dust seals, I don't think it's done bad at all. The forks have a bit of furring on them, but no worse than some pampered summer toys I've seen.
drefraser
02-12-07, 10:42 AM
Nuff restpect.
I don't know what my bike looks like at the moment because there's so much s**t coating it. I just hope the ACF 50 is doing the job.
dirtydog
02-12-07, 07:56 PM
Do you ride through salt marshes on a regular basis by any chance?


Id on't they're too bad for a 30k mile bike that's been ridden in all weathers, the forks on my 1st SV were much much worse
Law
03-12-07, 01:15 AM
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0146.jpg

:-k Those forks look kinda similar to mine.

I hope you were joking about swapping our forks over, cos if I get my bike back from you with these manky silver forks.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x241/dirtydog88/Photo-0138.jpg

There'll be trouble! :smt062 ;)
ELR4ever
03-12-07, 06:30 PM
DirtyD,

What did you do to paint them, just sand a bit and prime and paint or what? thinking of doing the same here. Let me know if you can. Cheers -Dave

Could damn near be done without even taking the tubes out I reckon. :cyclopsani:
dirtydog
03-12-07, 10:34 PM
:-k Those forks look kinda similar to mine.

I hope you were joking about swapping our forks over, cos if I get my bike back from you with these manky silver forks.
There'll be trouble! :smt062 ;)

:-dd:-dd:-dd oh ok i'll go and swap them back ;)

DirtyD,

What did you do to paint them, just sand a bit and prime and paint or what? thinking of doing the same here. Let me know if you can. Cheers -Dave

Could damn near be done without even taking the tubes out I reckon. :cyclopsani:


I've reprayed a couple of sets of forks on SVs the first time i just dropped the front wheel out, this time i had the forks out to fit some progressive springs.
All I did was take the dust seals off, tape up the stanchions, rub down with some wet and dry, prime, paint and lacquer. I just used a couple of spray cans from Halfords.