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Fork seals! Argh!
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<blockquote data-quote="Greb" data-source="post: 884907" data-attributes="member: 8845"><p>mr. paul,</p><p></p><p>I would consider 41,000 miles normal for the forks to wear through bushings. I would also venture to say it highly depends on your riding style and road conditions as to how fast they wear. Mine were showing wear at 25K when I rebuilt both forks.</p><p></p><p>Now to the reason for resurrecting this post: 5k miles after rebuilding both forks I picked up a leak during the WTF-0 meet in Idaho. I hit some dirt roads while up in Idaho and this caused my left fork to start weeping. I noticed it this week when I found fork oil was coating the entire length of my outer fork tube and the chrome was covered in oily dirt.</p><p></p><p>I was very skeptical to try the seal mate tool but damn happy to find out that their claims are true. This thing works! I didn't even have to take the fork off the bike. I'm taking a trip next week and this thing saved me some serious coin and aggravation. A very cheap tool that I'll keep with me on tour.</p><p></p><p>Not affiliated with these folks but I'm hoping to get the word out since our forks can be quite temperamental and changing the seal can be overkill if you don't at first try this tool or at least a homemade version of one.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.sealmate.net/" target="_blank">Seal mate tool</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greb, post: 884907, member: 8845"] mr. paul, I would consider 41,000 miles normal for the forks to wear through bushings. I would also venture to say it highly depends on your riding style and road conditions as to how fast they wear. Mine were showing wear at 25K when I rebuilt both forks. Now to the reason for resurrecting this post: 5k miles after rebuilding both forks I picked up a leak during the WTF-0 meet in Idaho. I hit some dirt roads while up in Idaho and this caused my left fork to start weeping. I noticed it this week when I found fork oil was coating the entire length of my outer fork tube and the chrome was covered in oily dirt. I was very skeptical to try the seal mate tool but damn happy to find out that their claims are true. This thing works! I didn't even have to take the fork off the bike. I'm taking a trip next week and this thing saved me some serious coin and aggravation. A very cheap tool that I'll keep with me on tour. Not affiliated with these folks but I'm hoping to get the word out since our forks can be quite temperamental and changing the seal can be overkill if you don't at first try this tool or at least a homemade version of one. [URL="https://www.sealmate.net/"]Seal mate tool[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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