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Bike Help / Re: Getting a tough fork Seal out
« on: January 31, 2016, 02:17:04 AM »
Here's the update on what was wrong with the forks and getting them apart.... on the youtube videos guys are breaking down their good condition forks forks and pulling the two halves apart with ease.
So after 20 years of wear the fork bushings had wore into the form you see below with a heavy ridge. Apparently it was nearly impossible for the lower fork tube's bushing (blue) (that's seated below the fork seal) to slide over the bushing's ridge on fork tube (red).
To the nay-sayers there's no way in hell the two halves would have not come apart without the vice, pry bar, heat, and my PVC (and later wood, to use a buffer between the hammer). I'm glad I did it myself because the shop would have called and either gave up or told me they had to ruin the $100 a piece lower fork cases (that's used price). I saved $300 in the quote on labor I received from Century Motor Sports in Stillwater for the job and I learned how to do my own fork seals on a bad pair of forks.
So after 20 years of wear the fork bushings had wore into the form you see below with a heavy ridge. Apparently it was nearly impossible for the lower fork tube's bushing (blue) (that's seated below the fork seal) to slide over the bushing's ridge on fork tube (red).
To the nay-sayers there's no way in hell the two halves would have not come apart without the vice, pry bar, heat, and my PVC (and later wood, to use a buffer between the hammer). I'm glad I did it myself because the shop would have called and either gave up or told me they had to ruin the $100 a piece lower fork cases (that's used price). I saved $300 in the quote on labor I received from Century Motor Sports in Stillwater for the job and I learned how to do my own fork seals on a bad pair of forks.
