My bike flys!!!Originally Posted by Robert Taylor
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you can make a nice fork seal driver from metal pipe and a small piece of flat bar, if you dont own a welder or suitable tools, could go take some beers down to your locan friendly fabricator type guy. just make shure all surfaces are well smooth so ya dont scratch ya chrome
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Not ideal sorry as you are not applying full circle pressure and it increases the chances of damaging / distorting the seal.
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It also helps to be able to call a suspension guru when you're halfway through the job and just can't get that feckin bolt off!
Go the PVC fork seal driver! Complete disassembly aint as bad as what you might think. Sure, it takes a little more time but the result is far and away better.
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There are definitely times when having the right people's phone numbers on your cellphone really really rock.It also helps to be able to call a suspension guru when you're halfway through the job and just can't get that feckin bolt off!
Go the PVC fork seal driver! Complete disassembly aint as bad as what you might think. Sure, it takes a little more time but the result is far and away better.
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I,ve just done my seals and just used a piece of PVC pipe,worked fine.
Went for my WOF and failed cause one fork leaked.Strange I thought,they are new seals.Went home and pulled leaking one apart and I had put the seal in backwards.What a Plonker!!
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Went home and pulled leaking one apart and I had put the seal in backwards.What a Plonker!!sums it up.
As with previous posts, my usual method is to completely strip the fork legs and clean them out while I'm there. Never had any problems just prying the old seal out with a screwdriver, and using it to smack the new one in.
Then again I'm a rough bastard, but I don't work on aeroplanes, just in the aviation industry.....
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