bandit fork seals

[bombom]

hi all,

now im a car technician but forks scare the crap out of me because apparently springs go everywher if your not careful but just how hard are they to do.
its a 1993 suzuki bandit 400.
is it a simple care of popin of the seal and sliding it up the fork and off and then on with the new one or do you have to strip them down?????????

cheers for any help

[bagger]

its a stripdown job if your doing the seals because of leakage
the ones you can see are the dust seals
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[boundy]

I done some GSXR seals the other day, I spent more time scratching my head trying to work out how to support the bike using just a car jack, than I did doing the seals.

[bombom]

ah cheers for that bagger
and iv definatly been there before boundy lol.

[stinkwheel]

The seals aren't always blown. If they are leaking a little and the stanchions aren't rusty/pitted, try shoving a piece of thin, flexible but fairly rigid plastic down between the seal and the stanchion. A photographic negative with the notches cut off is perfect for this.

You often get dirt accumulating under the seal which stops it sealing. The film scrapes it off. I did this just the other day on my fiancees bike that had oil running down the forkleg. Clean as a whistle now.
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