76 KZ 900 fork seal removal

How do you remove the old seals from the forks. They are in thier good and tight

Help, I am a novice

Do you have the forks apart yet?

Hey, I need to do this too...can you take us through the steps? I still have the forks on - any way to do this without disassembling everything?

Rob

you need to disasemble the forks to remove old seal.ive got a tool somewhere for installing them it drops down over forktube and uses the tube as a guide you just kind of bang it down on the seal to seat it.

Might be a "How To" in the Filebase that describes it.

Hey!!!
Where did the Filebase go?? The KZ Information tab is missing!

Post edited by: steell, at: 2007/02/27 22:24

You have to take the forks off the bike to get the new seals on, but you do not have to take the forks themselves apart to get them out. If you have a compressor you can blow the seals out..

After removing the forks from your bike drain the oil from them by removing the little drain screw at the bottom of the fork, pumping them in and out will get the oil out quickly, be warned that this is messy as the oil will squirt out the little drain hole as you push down on the fork, putting the bottom of the fork in a bucket will save you from shooting oil across your shop.. Once you have the oil out, clamp the bottom of the fork in a vise or something else suitable to hold it secure.. Now the fun part, slide the dust boot off the fork and remove the retaining clip on top of the seal, if there is one. Tie a rag around the fork where the seal is (if you dont you will put oil everywhere) and using a blow gun with a rubber tip on it put it tight against the drain screw hole and pressurize the fork and the seal should just pop up out of its seat...simple as that.

Putting the new one on is just a matter of sliding the seal down over the fork tube (lube up the fork tube with lots of oil and make sure there is is no sharp nicks on the tube that can damage the new seal) and get a small piece of PVC pipe that will just fit over the fork tube to seat the seal.. Replace the retaining clip, put the dust boot back on, put the drain screw back in, and fill the fork with the proper amount of oil.. Put the forks back on the bike..

Sometimes they are stubburn and you may have to heat the area around the seal with a heat gun to get them moving...

I done this a few times now on different bikes and it works great..



Hope this helps

1045

1045 wrote:

You have to take the forks off the bike to get the new seals on, but you do not have to take the forks themselves apart to get them out. If you have a compressor you can blow the seals out..

After removing the forks from your bike drain the oil from them by removing the little drain screw at the bottom of the fork, pumping them in and out will get the oil out quickly, be warned that this is messy as the oil will squirt out the little drain hole as you push down on the fork, putting the bottom of the fork in a bucket will save you from shooting oil across your shop.. Once you have the oil out, clamp the bottom of the fork in a vise or something else suitable to hold it secure.. Now the fun part, slide the dust boot off the fork and remove the retaining clip on top of the seal, if there is one. Tie a rag around the fork where the seal is (if you dont you will put oil everywhere) and using a blow gun with a rubber tip on it put it tight against the drain screw hole and pressurize the fork and the seal should just pop up out of its seat...simple as that.

Putting the new one on is just a matter of sliding the seal down over the fork tube (lube up the fork tube with lots of oil and make sure there is is no sharp nicks on the tube that can damage the new seal) and get a small piece of PVC pipe that will just fit over the fork tube to seat the seal.. Replace the retaining clip, put the dust boot back on, put the drain screw back in, and fill the fork with the proper amount of oil.. Put the forks back on the bike..

Sometimes they are stubburn and you may have to heat the area around the seal with a heat gun to get them moving...

I done this a few times now on different bikes and it works great..



Hope this helps

1045

ive never heard of the blowgun trick,thats pretty slick!