Wish me luck

Opportune time to change the fork oil... and springs if you have stockers in there.

why dont you have bolts going from the plate into your fender? Or is mine the only one that does.

The original screws and screw nuts look a little like bolts.

Because he has an after-market fork brace there.

Paulcet, you know the zip tie caused this, don't you? Should just haverelied on the seal pushing the small amounts of road grime up the fork so see how it was going instead of the zip tie. So, now sue the ziptie maker for not warning you about this 



Michael

  Oh, so that's what did it!  New fork, $500.  I'll send them an invoice.

Yes, "aftermarket" fork brace and fender from a..... I don't remember.  Bolts are facing threads up, from the inside.

Have Progressive springs in there already.  The whole thing works so well, I'm not changing a thing! (Well, yes I'm changing the oil, but it'll be the same weight and qty.)

Thanks to the excellent write-up by dgyver, I have started taking the fork apart.

Cause might have been rust from the seal retainer ring.  I have found some very fine vertical scratches, and I'm not sure the fork is perfectly straight.  I can feel some deformity in the upper tube where the lower triple clamp is.  That is probably from being knocked over in the parking lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLs-lAVbPxU  I couldn't tell that it was tweaked by looking or riding, and the axle was not binding at all when I took it out.

I'm going to put it all back together with new seals and oil (both sides) and hope it lasts another 3 years and 19K miles.

Quote from: Paulcet on August 18, 2011, 07:06:31 PM
Thanks to the excellent write-up by dgyver, I have started taking the fork apart.

Cause might have been rust from the seal retainer ring.  I have found some very fine vertical scratches, and I'm not sure the fork is perfectly straight.  I can feel some deformity in the upper tube where the lower triple clamp is.  That is probably from being knocked over in the parking lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLs-lAVbPxU  I couldn't tell that it was tweaked by looking or riding, and the axle was not binding at all when I took it out.

I'm going to put it all back together with new seals and oil (both sides) and hope it lasts another 3 years and 19K miles.

Did you read the write up Dgyver and I did on rebuilding Katana forks?I think those are a set of forks that we done together.I know one set had Progressive springs and mine had straight rate stock Katana 750 springs.I helped do some front end work on your bike just before Dgyver sold it.You beat me to the sale.

Quote from: ben2go on August 18, 2011, 07:24:33 PM
Did you read the write up Dgyver and I did on rebuilding Katana forks?I think those are a set of forks that we done together.I know one set had Progressive springs and mine had straight rate stock Katana 750 springs.I helped do some front end work on your bike just before Dgyver sold it.You beat me to the sale.

Yeah, that's the one.  Nicely done.  Here's a pic of my bike (long before I bought it) from that write-up:

I wasn't fond of those wipers with the spring on the outside.You can see it in the pic there.All of mine are molded and I have never had issues with debris getting in and causing the seals to leak.Not saying that's why your are leaking.I am surprised that they are.We took pains to make sure everything was perfect on every set of forks we did,weather or not we did them together.