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Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 07:40 pm: |
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No I didn't just get back from the arctic. My right front fork seal has left oil all over the garage floor. Now I know why the front brake took so darned much hand pressure, oil all over the pucks and rotor. My dealer has a seal, so I'm picking it up tomorrow morning. Now I get to be initiated into Buell front fork fixing fraternity. What joy. And I'm ordering a new tall seat sans side seams, assuming they are still available for ordering. (Message edited by electraglider_1997 on May 09, 2011) |
Froggy
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 07:49 pm: |
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Congrats! If you are lucky and you didn't lose much fluid, you can try using some 35mm film or something similar on the fork tube to try and clean the seal and stop the leak. Also, feel the fork for any nicks or other imperfections that may cause a leak. |
Crusty
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 08:28 pm: |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUabDrfjATY |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 02:27 pm: |
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Dillon Brothers actually had a seal in inventory and the price was only around 3 bucks. I also ordered the seamless tall seat. |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 02:29 pm: |
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John, I've seen that before but it's still funny. |
Etennuly
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 07:10 pm: |
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OMG!!! Ah have blown a seal myself!! AAAAAAGGGGG! I'm not sure if I should be ashamed, embarrassed or feel bad for the seal. Ewwwwwe it got slimy stuff all over my chin faring!
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Skifastbadly
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 07:14 pm: |
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It's funny you should post this because I noticed the same thing last weekend on my new (to me) 08. I thought "Oh jesus christ, not this damned bike now...." Cause I figured it would be expensive to take it in and have the HD apes work on it. But being a cheapskate, I tried trick of cleaning out the seal first. I took one of the blow-in cards from my Rider magazine, went out to the garage, and put the edge up under the dust seal. What a lot of crap was up in there. Dirty dirty seal! So I did it three or four more times, round and round, until it was coming out clean. Since that time I've put about 75 miles on the bike and there is no apparent leakage. So I'd give that a shot first. Although having said that, if you had oil all over the garage floor you probably need to reill at minimum. (Message edited by skifastbadly on May 10, 2011) |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 07:56 pm: |
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I've done seals on quite a few bikes but this will be the first on the ULY. Going to tackle it tomorrow. Jack up the bike, remove wheel, loosen both triple clamps on the offending side and then pull out the right side fork. I'm only doing the bad side seal but since I've never changed the fork oil on this bike, I'll remove the other also just to replace the oil. Hopefully it won't be that difficult. Famous last words. |
Skifastbadly
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 10:10 pm: |
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Take lots of pictures, I may be going to school on ya. |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 10:30 am: |
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Ski, I'll do that. Going to begin the process within the next 30 minutes. When it comes to doing these kind of jobs it is always hardest just taking the first steps towards the garage. Have to put things in perspective though, Hugh's ULY rebuild makes my seal replacement pretty darned tame. Everytime I delve into a new part of the bike it I always end up with a nice feeling of accomplishment. |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 10:15 pm: |
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Ski, Changing out the seal was a beeyatch. Wouldn't of been so hard except the first time is always the hardest. I also changed out the oil in the other shock which was much easier. 30,000 miles on that oil and it looked clean. Anyway I took some photos but only include a couple here because others have written pretty good instructions already on BadWeb. I did a Big Bad & Dirty search on Front Fork and found a manageable amount of good stuff. Tootal wrote up some real helpful instructions. I came up with a nice very inexpensive bearing driver that cost only $1.40 for a 2" PVC barbed hose coupling (cut in half lengthwise with a hack saw) and a hose clamp. I also took everyones' advice from the search and bought a $9 1.25" deep well socket. A very necessary purchase.
Slam that seal driver to the top of the second barb and you are far enough to install the wavy snap ring that keeps the seal from coming out. I compressed the forks with a ratchet strap while still in the triple clamps per other's instructions. Next time a seal goes bad I'll not have any problem at all. Of course I also used the Service manual. |
Schwara
| Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2012 - 06:19 pm: |
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bringing this back from the dead ... two questions 1) Where does one find a 2" PVC barbed hose coupling? I've looked all over and even asked at Home Depot and largest I have seen or heard of is 1.5". 2) Is this 2" still the correct size that I need for my '09 Uly? I know there were some fork changes over the years. Thanks |
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