Author Topic: Leaking fork seal on new 2011 - Warranty repair or no? (6 weeks old and 3300 mi)  (Read 6212 times)

Offline Pokey

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Picked the bike up today after having the brake recall done and the left fork seal replaced.

They covered it under warranty, the tech said it appeared to be bug related. No fork damage, but evidently some bug whom met his fate on high speed impact got his posthumous revenge by working his corrosive innards into the seal where it successfully managed to compromise it's oil sealing ability.

All better now, word to the wise, wipe them forks down daily- don't let bug guts dry and work their way in.


Bet you could've fixed it with the sealmate......it works as advertised. Just fixed my WR fork that was leaking bad, sealmate did the trick. Oh and it cost me around $4.00, most forks don't need replaced unless the seal is blown or damaged "most aren't". 1 tiny piece of sand or bug parts can cause the fork to leak, gets up under the seal and breaks the seal.


http://sealmate.net/
2006 DL1000  2006 SV650
08 C14 "gone"

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