Fork seals?

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Fork seals?

16 Aug 2009 20:04
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Never done em before and im wondering what im facing.
Is there any tips floating around out there that i could use.

Mine are so gone my front fender is getting dented from the nuts holding my fairing on.

Its an 82 Kz550
82 Honda ATC 200-sold
82 Yamaha Virago 920-sold
82 Yamaha YZ250j-kept
80 Suzuki GS 550-sold
82 Kawasaki KZ550 A2-ride all the time
79 Kawasaki KZ650 C-sold
73 Kawasaki Z1 900E-paid $200, sold $6000
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Re: Fork seals?

16 Aug 2009 20:09
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I thought the inner springs were what allowed the travel level. Oil seal was just to keep oil in for lubrication and water out so it wouldn't contaminate the oil causing break down of inner seals and spring tention?If this were the case then your travel down to your fairing would be week inner springs. But I DONT KNOW someone else should be able to help,
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Re: Fork seals?

17 Aug 2009 11:08
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yeah your probably right,
when i pull up the dust boots i can see that the seals have big chunks missing and they are all rotten and what not, i changed the fork oil properly, but they wont hold air at all, i fill em up with air and its gone within an hour sooo.

could be weak springs too, i will probably add a piece of pvc tubing at the top of the spring to stiffen it up a little bit.
82 Honda ATC 200-sold
82 Yamaha Virago 920-sold
82 Yamaha YZ250j-kept
80 Suzuki GS 550-sold
82 Kawasaki KZ550 A2-ride all the time
79 Kawasaki KZ650 C-sold
73 Kawasaki Z1 900E-paid $200, sold $6000
86 Yamaha Radian YX600-new project

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Re: Fork seals?

17 Aug 2009 17:30
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There was a thread about this just a few days ago. I'll bet there are others, too. Use the search function to find them.
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www.kzrider.com/11-projects/620336-anoth...uild-thread?start=24

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