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[QUOTE="Monkey Butt, post: 125847, member: 18696"] [b]seal cleaning[/b] Wash your bike thoroughly, but do not power wash the fork tubes. Remove the lower dust seal from the seal. Use a contact cleaner to clean the seal and dust seal thoroughly. Wipe it with a clean rag as well. Push down on the forks a couple of times to make sure you have cleaned the area around the seals thoroughly. The next step is to take a .003 feeler guage or film negative and slide it up inside the oil seal between the seal and fork tube. Gentily rotate the film around the fork tube until you have went all of the way around the tube. You may have to insert it more than once. You will lose a little bit of fluid while doing this, but not much. Clean off the fluid you just lost. Now check for leaks again by pushing down on the forks. Wipe off the fluid on the forks. Push down on the forks again, just in case the fluid on the tube is left over from sticking the film in the seal. It may take several tries before you stop the leak. The last time I used this technique, I used the feeler guage twice and the film negative twice before it stopped leaking (I'm not sure which is a better too, the feeler guage or the film negative) . Two rides later and it still isn't leaking. I put a litle bit of grease in the dust seal before putting the seal back into place. Don't over pack the dust seal with grease. I have used this technique on three different bikes and have had good results and no ill effects. If your forks have been leaking for a long time or very excessively, you may want to inspect them more thoroughly to make sure you haven't lost too much fluid. Low fluid can effect the handling of the bike and components inside the forks if it is really low. I had a WR400 that I used this cleaning technique on several times after leaks. I checked the fluid level in the winter before replacing the fluid. Amazingly the fluid in the forks were still even and really hadn't dropped much at all. Warning be careful not to scratch your fork tubes during this process. It is probably most likely to happen when removing the dust seal with a screw driver. If you are careful you shouldn't scratch any thing. I just put on some of the sleeves mentioned in this post to see if that will keep the dirt out of my seals. I don't have enough time on them yet to give a good evaluation of the product. Neal [/QUOTE]
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