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Seal Mate and Fork Seal Fix
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<blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 1109924" data-attributes="member: 3828"><p>I've used it on forks that were gushing oil prohibitively and it was still completely effective at resealing them.</p><p></p><p>Fork seals do not rip open, blow out, or wear out very often. The vast majority of the time when a shop replaces fork seals, the seals are actually just fine and just have some road spooge get under the lip to make it leak. My stock fork seals lasted 75k miles till I replaced them when I was rebuilding the fork innards with aftermarket (GP Suspension) valving. The seals were actually still fine and would have lasted a lot longer had I reinstalled them. I had used a seal mate to reseal them twice previously.</p><p></p><p>But they can't make very much money just cleaning the seals, now can they?</p><p></p><p>Get the tool (or make one). Learn how to do this on the side of the road and you will save yourself a lot of grief in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred W, post: 1109924, member: 3828"] I've used it on forks that were gushing oil prohibitively and it was still completely effective at resealing them. Fork seals do not rip open, blow out, or wear out very often. The vast majority of the time when a shop replaces fork seals, the seals are actually just fine and just have some road spooge get under the lip to make it leak. My stock fork seals lasted 75k miles till I replaced them when I was rebuilding the fork innards with aftermarket (GP Suspension) valving. The seals were actually still fine and would have lasted a lot longer had I reinstalled them. I had used a seal mate to reseal them twice previously. But they can't make very much money just cleaning the seals, now can they? Get the tool (or make one). Learn how to do this on the side of the road and you will save yourself a lot of grief in the future. [/QUOTE]
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