Fork saels.

[Mr White]

Anyone knows how much does it cost to get fork seals changed by the garage?

I know the parts alone cost about £30, is it easy DIY job?

[Bikeless]

Should be around an hours labour(£60?) so i would look at paying around £100 for new seals and oil,maybe a little more.

[jay12329]

I paid £100 a few years ago when i took the loose forks in. Not a hard DIY job but quite fiddly and you need to make up some tools.
HTH
J

[el_oso]

done a few sets of fork seals. really easy job. replaced the seals on my xr125 with cheapy pattern oil seals and they were fine.
replaced the seals on my diversion for the second time for one leg as the stanchion was pitted quite severely so it just ate through the seal in about 2-3months.
it is a fairly easy job. you will need a long extender bar to separate the forks and probably need to make your own allen key out of 2nuts and a bolt or something similar. doing it yourself you should expect to spend upto 2hours even if you know what you are doing assuming that everything goes fairly smoothly.
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Duke 390
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[hmmmnz]

[G]

If a bike shop charged for over an hour I'd be worried.
An electric or air impact wrench often makes it a fair bit easier.
The ones I did on my KG GSXR recently were incredibly easy - 6mm allen key to take them out, 24mm (or something big) spanner for the top bolt and 8mm long allen key socket on the impact wrench for the bottom bolt.

Slipped straight out with no messing banging bushes/seals out.
Easy to get back in as the stanchion isn't in at the moment.

If you can get to Reading (location not in your profile), don't mind giving a hand.

[Cigaro]

Getting the new seals in is the real bastard.

If you can do the dissasembly yourself and take the forks in in bits, get the bike shop to do the hard bit, I did that recently and they charged me £10 I think.

It's not hard, usually involves undoing a bolt at the bottom of the fork leg and then simply pulling both halves apart, the seal will pop out with it.

They have the fork seal driver etc so it's a lot easier for them.

[G]

[el_oso]

it took me about two hours to do both legs on my diversion which included a very thorough clean and dry of all the internals. i am sure i could do it in an hour but i take my time and do things at a fairly leisurely pace.
I would be surprised if a shop couldn't do it in about an hour
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Car: Jeep Wrangler 4.0L

[TheDonUK]

Bloke who sometimes does work for me charges about 60-70 quid... (you provide seals)
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