Some time ago, knowing that I needed to replace my front fork seals on my Valk, I bought the "All Balls" brand of seals and dust covers. I finally got around to installing them the last couple of days. After watching some Youtube videos and looking at my Clymer manual, which is pretty good by the way, I got started. If you decide to tackle this yourself, just some friendly advice and take pictures of how the innards of the forks come apart. Everything went pretty well until it came time to install the fork seals. I was fortunate enough to have a friend lend me the install tool to do this job.
After installing everything on the fork, I proceeded to try to beat the seal into place using the tool. I tried several times but the seal would not go it. I probably spent a couple of hours verifying that I had everything in place correctly and trying to figure out why it would not go it place. I guess the "All Balls" seals are slightly larger diameter than stock Honda seals. What I found was if I turn the fork upside down and then push the fork onto the slider using the tool and the weight of my body and strength on my arms/hands, I was able to slide the seal into place, fairly easily. I had put a very thin coating of moly grease on the seal and in the housing prior to installing the seal. No damage was done to the dust cover at all during this procedure. I used the same procedure for installing the dust covers as well. I used a piece of wood on my chest for support, but a thick folded towel would have probably worked better and with let chance of the fork slipping off the wood and getting injured.
This procedure may be able to be used when installing other brands of fork seals as well. I hope this helps those who decide to tackle this job themselves.
