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eternally_troubled wrote:If you don't have any luck with the seal buddy (other thin pieces of plastic are available!), have you considered replacing the seals yourself? You mentioned doing some wheel bearings - I'm not sure that fork seals are any much more difficult myself.
Unless loads of oil is coming out then you may not even need to decide right away - a very temporary fix can be obtained by sliding the dust seal up the leg, packing some rolled up kitchen paper (or similar) around the fork leg, on top of the fork seal. This can then be trapped in place by pushing the dust seal back down. Not a long-term fix by any means but can reduce the amount leaking out temporarily.
It might at least buy you time to get another quote/price, if you want.
So I whipped off the dust seals and cleaned out the seals best I could with some old camera film, the old negatives you'd get in the envelope with your holiday snaps. Sadly I didn't have any to hand and had to order them but they were cheaper than Seal Buddy.Al1040 wrote:Have you tried to clean it with a 'Seal Buddy', sometimes that works if it is just a little bit of grit that has gotten under the seal? Can't do any harm and only a fiver!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283692528407?hash=item420d647317:g:D10AAOSwydpd4HbC
It seemed to do the trick and I did a full dry run to the local test centre. Upon inspection at the centre, both seals now weeping. The original disc side as bad if not worse than before. So no quick fix. Looks like replacements are required. Bike goes out of MOT in a week so looks like it will have to lapse a short while and I'll get the seals replaced next month, when payday is a little more recent in the memory.
