Can you ride a motorcycle with bad fork seals?
You should notride with a bad fork seal for many reasons, safety being number one. A bad fork seal could leak oil onto your brake calipers, resulting in trouble decelerating and stopping the bike. That, plus poor shock absorption and an unbalanced ride makes a leaky fork seal dangerous to ride on.
How long does it take to do fork seals on a motorcycle?
If you have the right tools, and the parts are in good condition, it should take no more than 2 hours. Patience is the key to have a clean fork tube before reinstallation.
Should I replace my fork seals?
Once both the forks are clean, take your bike out for a quick spin. If you notice oil or grime around the forks at the end of your ride, there’s a good chance that the fork seals need to be replaced. To prevent any further damage, you should get the seals replaced.
How to replace the seal on a Hayabusa Fork?
You will just empty out all the old oil and pump the actuator arm a few times to work all the old oil out of it also.. you will replace the seals and dust cover in the upper fork portion… then refill with new oil (be sure to work ALL the air out of the actuator) and put it back together!!
When do you need to replace a fork seal?
Each tube requires a seal to keep the oil of the interior of the tube from leaking out. Fork seals should be replaced as soon as leaking oil is noticed. If the seal is left unchanged, the oil could leak onto the brake pads and ruin your motorcycle or you could run out of oil completely and ruin your motorcycle.
Do you have to break down a fork to change the oil?
You do not have to break down the whole Fork to do the fork seals and oil. If you are just doing seals and oil take the fork apart remove all the old oil then replace old seals with new ones and the replace oil and slap them back together. Rubber2burn is correct…. I just did this a couple of weeks ago…I take it you are using CAT3’s tutorial-
What should I do if my fork is not coming out?
If the leg does not want to come out and you have the bolt and circlip out, the problem is a bushing under the fork seal. Push the fork leg in and then pull it out sharply. You may have to do this several times. This will slowly work the seal and bushing out of the fork leg. Clean all the old fluid out of the leg. Slide the old seal off the leg.
You will just empty out all the old oil and pump the actuator arm a few times to work all the old oil out of it also.. you will replace the seals and dust cover in the upper fork portion… then refill with new oil (be sure to work ALL the air out of the actuator) and put it back together!!
Each tube requires a seal to keep the oil of the interior of the tube from leaking out. Fork seals should be replaced as soon as leaking oil is noticed. If the seal is left unchanged, the oil could leak onto the brake pads and ruin your motorcycle or you could run out of oil completely and ruin your motorcycle.
You do not have to break down the whole Fork to do the fork seals and oil. If you are just doing seals and oil take the fork apart remove all the old oil then replace old seals with new ones and the replace oil and slap them back together. Rubber2burn is correct…. I just did this a couple of weeks ago…I take it you are using CAT3’s tutorial-
If the leg does not want to come out and you have the bolt and circlip out, the problem is a bushing under the fork seal. Push the fork leg in and then pull it out sharply. You may have to do this several times. This will slowly work the seal and bushing out of the fork leg. Clean all the old fluid out of the leg. Slide the old seal off the leg.