MOT panic!

[SpannerMonkey]

Right, someone roll me off a list of ways to get fucked up fork seals through an MOT please? Cant find any replacements and the MOT is tomorrow! There's hardly any grease left in there, I'm tempted to just stuff tissue inside the seals and make sure they're clean... It's only a moped so it should be fine right? Any other ideas?
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[fatpies]

Open them up and drain the oil from them, with no oil it can't leak!

Another trick is this. roll up some kitchen towel some expensive stuff into a sausage and stuff it under the fork seal dust covers. THEN cover the forks with some gators. Cable tie the bottom and the top, MOT tester can't remove anything.
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[SpannerMonkey]

I'd love to do the second trick mate, but I cant get fork gaiters for 1pm =/ nowhere in my town sells them small enough
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[Ariel Badger]

just wipe them clean as you go in for your MOT, no oil no leak.
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[fatpies]

[Martay]

Section of innter tube pulled over each leg and cable tied?
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[stinkwheel]

I'm 98% certain a 1983 Tomos does not have oil in the forks, therefore it has no oil seals to be leaking.

It has greased springs and a dust seal over the top.

I had this exact argument with an MOT tester over my Tomos many years ago. He failed it on leaking fork seals, I said it didn't have any and what he was seeing was grease on the stanchion. He didn't believe me, I got cross and told him I expected him to know what he was doing before settng himself up as an MOT tester, he said he'd been MOT-ing bikes for 20 years and I should watch my lip, I told him he'd better phone the Tomos dealer and ask them before he dug himself a deeper hole, he stormed into the office and came out 10 minutes later with a pass certificate. pokerface.jpg

So. Check in your manual that this is the case. Take the manual with you to the MOT and show it to them before they start because there aren't Tomos dealers to phone any more. I'd put it along the lines of: "I'll just point this out to you because it's unusual and people keep failing it on leaking fork oil seals. This bike doesn't have oil in the forks and doesn't have oil seals as you can see here in the manual. What you're seeing on the stanchions is grease to stop them rusting."

Better than having a toe-to-toe with him like I did when I was an arrogant little twat or you'll run out of places to take it for an MOT.
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[SpannerMonkey]

Cheers for that there stinkwheel, ive just shoved tissue under the dust seal for now, most of the grease is gone, ill just regrease it after the mot. Saves any falling out =)
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