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Leaking fork seal

roadminge

roadminge

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So my job for the weekend is to replace the fork seals on my 2014 California, only the RH fork leg is weeping and I find this to be strange with only 12k miles and the fork shroud covered the dust cover and seals from the elements. Heavier fork oil and potentially springs will be ordered to improve the front end feel
 
There's another post about leaking fork seals on this forum, which mentions using a tool called SealMate to repair it. I've never had to use one, but it may be worth a shot.
 
Keep us posted , not an afternoon job from what I've seen . But I can understand doing some mods to the
suspension . Replacing the rear shocks was a necessity for sure , front seems pretty good on the 2018 Eldorado.
I love to tinker with these things . Peter
 
If you have any visible sticky goop on the fork tube, try the Sealmate before you disassemble.

Unrelated... I often wonder how many people would upgrade only the front or rear shocks on a car? The data I have worked hard to produce to share here and help develop the products for sale on the STORE link above shows how terrible stock suspension (both ends) are. All I’ll add here as this is well covered in the suspension thread in this section.
 
I have road raced for many years and have some other bikes in my herd with premium suspension and the California is pretty bad, my wife even complained on how crude the ride is
 
I had same issue with right fork seal leaking. I removed fork and used seal mate. Worked but intermediatly very slight weeping. At this stage doesn't warrant a tear down and replace. Though does need fork fluid replacing. Hmm :wait:
 
so this weekend I got to work on replacing the fork seals, and I upgraded to heavier Race Tech fork springs and 15W oil. The entire job took around 5 hours with a lot of cursing, this is a heavy bike with heavy components, and even with my hydraulic lift table and a scissor jack it was a struggle. The end result is worth it, firstly no leaking fork oil, the front end is now compliant and much firmer, hence no crazy fork dive, there is so much more feedback on fast sweeping bends and overall it just feels right.
 
Did you require any special tools to remove chrome stanchion to replace seals. In your opinion is this a home job or require specialist skills and tools? Did you just replace seals or full rebuild?
 
David Griffiths said:
Did you require any special tools to remove chrome stanchion to replace seals. In your opinion is this a home job or require specialist skills and tools? Did you just replace seals or full rebuild?
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Hi David

I do have a special Race Tech tool to compress the spring to remove the fork caps and then the spacers and spring, once this is done removal of the fork dust seal is fairrly simple, and then using the fork tube and leg as a slide hammer carefully ease the fork seal out without separating the fork tube. I could not find my fork seal driver so I used the old seal to press in the new seal, then applied the dust seal and reassembled the forks.

I have worked on many forks at home and the Guzzi 1400 was the most awkward due to the weight of the bike and components and the fork shrouds obscuring my view. But as I said in the previous post the effort was worth it,
 
roadminge said:
so this weekend I got to work on replacing the fork seals, and I upgraded to heavier Race Tech fork springs and 15W oil. The entire job took around 5 hours with a lot of cursing, this is a heavy bike with heavy components, and even with my hydraulic lift table and a scissor jack it was a struggle. The end result is worth it, firstly no leaking fork oil, the front end is now compliant and much firmer, hence no crazy fork dive, there is so much more feedback on fast sweeping bends and overall it just feels right.
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Are these the same springs sold on this site? Also, having a hard time figuring out the oil capacity or a measurement to figure out the height.

Thanks!
 
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