I need a crank oil seal that costs around $8 everywhere but these yahoos insist on charging $8 to ship what will easily fit in a first-class envelope.

Anyone have a source of such things that doesn't charge as much for shipping as the part costs?

Thanks-

The simple answer is order more than one thing at once.  Anything else you might need?  Oil filters?

For a car ?
It may fit in a bubble envelope but it costs like $2.75 or there abouts to ship the jets I send in the #000 envelope.
If the seal can be damaged by bending, dropping a brick on it or otherwise, I'd actually not ship it in a #000 bubble envelope. That could justify the shipping cost.
But yea pad the order till the shipping space in the box its coming in is utilized. However one time I ordered that way, and those people didn't have the main part I was looking for so they sent me all the rest. Grrrr.
Cool.
Buddha.

Its a standard nitrile oil seal. 22x40x8mm

Instead of paying daft prices find someone local to you who sells bearings and power transmission components to industry. They will have dozens of them in stock.

Example......http://www.bearingsrus.co.uk/sealing-products/oil-seal/metric-oil-seals/22x40x8

Or go to your local dealer. Small OEM parts like that are roughly the same price everywhere. Because that is not a common part you will have to special order it and wait a week but you won't have to pay shipping. Call the order in so you only have to go to the dealer once.

Quote from: Bluesmudge on May 25, 2017, 03:36:09 PM
Or go to your local dealer. Small OEM parts like that are roughly the same price everywhere.

Yeah, everywhere except the dealer.

Ebay going rate was $6.93.

Online ordering from a shop going rate was just under $8.

Dealer wanted $11.62. That and it's a 45-minute drive from my house to the ONLY Suzuki dealer in the Austin area.

I like Sledge's idea and would have done that had I not pulled the trigger already by the time I saw it. I ordered from an ebay seller for $12 and change to get it delivered to my door, about the same price as the dealer would have charged with sales tax.

The majority of seals and bearings used on the GS5 are industry standard, ISO items and are freely available from alternative sources.

I can easily source quality nancy boy and SKF 62 and 63 series deep groove bearings for wheels and 32 and 33 series taper rollers for headstock's. Also INA needle rollers for suspension linkages all at prices way below the unbranded OEM items. If I can I am sure others can.

Some of the gearbox bearings are non ISO and have to come from the dealers though.

Quote from: sledge on May 26, 2017, 10:53:43 AM
The majority of seals and bearings used on the GS5 are industry standard, ISO items and are freely available from alternative sources.

I can easily source quality nancy boy and SKF 62 and 63 series deep groove bearings for wheels and 32 and 33 series taper rollers for headstock's. Also INA needle rollers for suspension linkages all at prices way below the unbranded OEM items. If I can I am sure others can.

Some of the gearbox bearings are non ISO and have to come from the dealers though.

Thanks for that info. I'm going to have to do headstock bearings soon so I'll keep that in mind. Fork seals are on the horizon as well.

Fork seals are non ISO and differ from oil seals

They function axially rather than radially and are not classed as standard lip or oil seals.

The difference between the designs is that with a fork seal the moving part travels along the center of the seals axis. With an oil seal the moving part rotates about the center of the seals axis.