Gosh darn any way

[Mn. Norseman]

After fanageling time off, preventive maintenance for three weeks,gonna load up and pull out tommorow at six. Noticed front fork seal fail. Gonna pull out anyway, hope to get it fixed out there.

[hubcapsc]

I spewed out fork oil all the way to one InZane, rebuilt the fork in the parking lot.

I spewed out oil from the other fork all the way to the next InZane, Trout Dude and Mitch
fixed it with a Seal Mate while I drank a beer and watched.

Both are still good, several years later...

-Mike

[fudgie]

Run some 35 mm film up and down under it. Did it to mine and it worked for another yr or so. Ive seen folks tie grease rags around it.

[Chrisj CMA]

I bought one of them Seal Mate tools.  Essentially it's a better version of the 35mm film but works the same way.

It's best if you pry the dust seal down and the push the film directly up under the oil seal.  With a sawing motion go around 2 or three times.  Oh ya, you need to remove the chrome fork tube shields too.  Easy to do that there are two 10 mm nuts up under the fender that a 10 mm box wrench can get to without removing the wheel.

Good luck

[Mn. Norseman]

Thanks for tips. Got to work tonight, leaving at 6:00 am tomorrow. Don't have time to even look at it. Going to try to have big bf take care of it proper.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Thanks for tips. Got to work tonight, leaving at 6:00 am tomorrow. Don't have time to even look at it. Going to try to have big bf take care of it proper.

You`ll be fine. I`ve ridden many miles with leakers. If it gets so bad it`s geeting on the brake pads, tie a piece of cloth on the tube.

[gregk]

I found a scratch on a tube years ago when I had a Venture an stopped the leak by using 2000 wt sand paper and then turned the paper over and used the back side to get a polished job an that took care of it.   By  using the back side of 2000 at paper it becomes kinda like 3000 at. Try it, I done this to bolts just to see what would happen an it looked like a mirror. This will cure a scratch on the tube.