my 97 Tourer with 100K miles has a bit of a fork seal leak...

[RedValk]

....again. I've replaced fork seals once or twice in the 12 years i've owned her. My left seal is JUST BARELY "seeping" ....very little. So my question is...didn't folks post some technique for doing something that MAY allow you to postpone doing the fork seal fix. Something like using a piece of film or something?

Can anyone enlighten me on IF there is something i can do to postpone another fork seal change...and IF SO...how/what it is............

i'm leaving thursday for a road trip...and i don't want to deal with this until AFTER doing the 1000 miles or so. RIGHT NOW, it's BARELY leaving a film on the fork tube....but i know....that could go from barely a film...to leaking pretty bad...overnight possibly!

sure would love a quick and easy TEMPORARY 'fix'...if there is one.......

[Bone]

Not sure either but didn't they run a feeler gauge around the fork tube under the seal ?

[Bone]

Here it is I did a quick seach, some used the feeler;

The easy fix, if it works is to get a strip of 35 mm film. Slide it up under the fork seal all the way around. Sometimes you get a small chunk of grit in the seal and the film can get it out.

[RedValk]

thanks...that was the one i thought i'd heard of...the 35 mm film one. I'll see if i can try that...or even the feeler gauge one....

hopefully, it won't "let go" and REALLY leak during the trip...like my wife's Valk did once! It left puddles under one of the forks for a couple of days until i got it fixed!