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Message: [QUOTE="gthoma23, post: 1289992, member: 88756"] so i'll try and make this as short as possible. i bout a '03 CR250 list year (showa forks), and decided it was time to change the fork oil. and in the process, i broke the compression adjuster bolt (bought whole new fork cap after this ride). i decided to go ride anyway. well my forks started banging, like then were tryin to pull apart. a few minutes later i adjusted the dampers and it worked fine, except my forks started leaking. so when i got home i tried to pull the dust seal down and clean the oil seal, but my dust seal wouldn't come out. so i ended up havin to tear it apart. so i took my forks apart, cleaned, and re-assembled w/ new dust & oil seals, and oiled them. so i decided to test them, by just puttin my own body weight on them and see how they worked. one fork that i didn't break the compression adjust worked fine, the one that did break, is makin a weird noise (and i had the new fork cap in). the noise sounds similar to the fork bang i was having. but obviously not as loud cuz there's not as much load. but it's hard to discribe a noise, but it didn't sound like the other fork. does any1 know what this is, or had this happen to them? could it be a warn out bushing? they looked fine but this was my first time doin this. the only thing i think it could be is that the oil seal isn't up far enough. it was pretty hard for me to get the snap ring in on this one, and maybe i didn't bang the bushing up far enought. any thoughts would be great! but don't say take it to a perfessional if u haven't ever worked on forks. i hate that when people that don't work on bikes say, "take it to a professional and leave it alone." i love learnin and workin on my bike, don't care if it cost me more...i enjoy it. thanks!!! [/QUOTE]

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