| Author | Message | ||
     Tsispyder |
Ok guys, so its been a little bit since i've been able to ride my buell since paperwork issues of making it legal, and it going down in the mountains thanks to gravel. But i have the correct paperwork and went out today to work on the bike (exhaust too loud had to repack the vance and hines) Basically i need some help The front left fork is leaking becuase of the crash and sitting there for a while. I was going to just rebuild it, but hte actual tube is scratched on the surface, and i think that could lead to the leak. I need someone to PLEASE help me out with a front fork or a set. Or somehow to fix mine, as it sits, im going to scrub all the oil off, hope no more drains so it passes inspection then work on the zxr 400 i got for free until i can find a way to fix it. or just keep fililng it up. one of the two. But people on ebay arent wanting to ship to me, and i need this stuf so i can try and make a track day in Tsukuba circuit. Please guysm, again help would be appreciate!!!! Ill pay for the stuff, i just dont haev a huge amount of cash beign in teh air force and all so new isnt an option. Thanks in advance for any advice! Oh yeah, a stock exhaust would be great too! | ||
| Oldog |
Grant. You got mail.. If you can get the stuff on e-bay but cant get it sent to japan pm me ... | ||
| Chasespeed |
Grant, got your email, I will ping you on AOL here in a minute.... Chase | ||
| Firemanjim |
Check for an outfit to re-surface your fork leg.It is hard chromed,or have it nitrited(sp?) like the nice gold colored newer gixxers etc. Or you can try to polish it out with some jewelers rouge type emory cloth,and install new seal.Seal may have been blown by force of crash.I had one fail on a good hard edged divot in the road. | ||
| Tsispyder |
its the actualy INNER tube that i am worried about, it has 4 shallow type scratches in it (ill pos up pics after work for you to see) and only started leakign recently. I rode the bike like that for almost 3 weeks and no leaks. thats the strange part | ||
| Firemanjim |
That's the one I was refering to--the male/lower section. | ||
| Tsispyder |
oh ok just making sure we were on teh same track! | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I thought it was a normal Showa part? Are there any japbikes that have the same forks? | ||
| Tsispyder |
i dunno? dont know much about bikes to begin with. Im tryign to stay with buell knowledge and now zxr 400 knowledge (got one for free) | ||
| Firemanjim |
One of the Buell teams at Laguna used Showa lowers off of a Gixxer 750 so as to get the dual disc set-up from same. Seeing as how Showa parts come from over there you might check them out. | ||
| Tsispyder |
thats a long term fix i need something within a week or two | ||
| Oldog |
Grant: can you feel the scratches with your nails or finger tips. light scratches "should not" make the seals leak, is the front fender still off of your bike?, if so trash may have gotten under the outer dust seal cutting the oil seal under it, my forks have a number of linear lines in the lower tube you can even feel the worst ones, no leaks the legs of the fender keep the bigstuff off of the leg, one set of seals is cheap to try IF not Try FMJ's polish it out trick using ROUGE, using 600 grit is too coarse and will likely make it worse, IIRC rouge or polish is 1000 grit or finer. | ||
| Tsispyder |
i was gonna try 2000 gritt adn then a polishing wheel The fender has been on for a while. but as soon as i get home ill get the pics so you can see where it was scratched. | ||
| Tsispyder |
    click the pic for hig res (Message edited by tsispyder on August 29, 2006) | ||
| Firemanjim |
You have absolutely nothing to loose by trying to polish those scratches out.It's the ones in the second pic that are the culprits.I would take the finest file I could find and knock down the high spots as that is the real culprit cutting the new seal. And then polish,polish,polish.Add new seal and I bet you are good.At most you are out some time spent in elbow grease. | ||
| Tsispyder |
im picking up some 1500-and 2000 gritt from the paint store tomorrow to start on it | ||
| Ptown |
If the fork tube is not absolutely round and the needed OD unchanged over the whole fork is to the specifications for the seal it will leak . The seals lip pressure on the indented area where the marks where polished out, will not be efficient and under pressure oil will be bypassed. Replacement will be the real solution . Those scratches looks deep to me. | ||
| Tsispyder |
yeah me too but you find a fork in japan ill pay you to do it | ||
| Mmmi_grad |
6 years in the body shop restoring musle cars and collectors cars say polish that out. Just becarefull to keep it round. I think I would start with a file and carefully get the ruff part done and go with a sand paper wheel on a drill. Afterall of that I still dought it would leak much if at all | ||
| Tsispyder |
im looking into a Gixxer front swap right now, i might just do that | ||
| Oldog |
dont try to polish that, their shot. in order to get it smooth enough it will be way under size, the gixxer front end sounds like a solution.. | ||
| Tsispyder |
yeah im working on it, I found one on ebay for 300 HALF of what people want for an inferior XB front lol |
