Posted by HardWorkingDog on November 13, 2010, 7:34 pm
Found a leaking fork seal, cleaned out the dust cap, then tried my
tried and true method of sliding a piece of 35mm film in to dislodge
and grit. Managed to break of a corner of the film and it's now
somewhere above the oil seal and I can't seem to fish it out.
Gahhhhhh.
Should I tear the fork down & put in new seals to get the film out?
It's about a .125" roughly square corner, where the perforations left
a weakened edge. Gonna use a business card next time....
Have this vision of the film working its way down and plugging up the
valve.
--
Charles
'99 YZ250
Posted by Scrape on November 13, 2010, 8:09 pm
@news.individual.net:
> Found a leaking fork seal, cleaned out the dust cap, then tried my
> tried and true method of sliding a piece of 35mm film in to dislodge
> and grit. Managed to break of a corner of the film and it's now
> somewhere above the oil seal and I can't seem to fish it out.
>
> Gahhhhhh.
>
> Should I tear the fork down & put in new seals to get the film out?
>
> It's about a .125" roughly square corner, where the perforations left
> a weakened edge. Gonna use a business card next time....
>
> Have this vision of the film working its way down and plugging up the
> valve.
>
My vote: Just get it next time you change the fork seals.
(Throwing out my 35mm film piece in the a.m.)
I've got one of those $4.00 Motion Pro seal cleaners that seems to work
very well, by the way.
Posted by HardWorkingDog on November 14, 2010, 11:59 pm
> >
>
> My vote: Just get it next time you change the fork seals.
> (Throwing out my 35mm film piece in the a.m.)
>
> I've got one of those $4.00 Motion Pro seal cleaners that seems to work
> very well, by the way.
Yeah, next time I'm in Cycle Gear I think I'm going top pick one up. I
decided to tear it down, even though I managed to get the leak
stopped. Too much cognitive dissonance. At least, that's what it felt
like.
Found the piece of film right where I thought it would be.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/5177706310_dbdafcd6b6_b.jpg
It was bigger than I thought it would be, folded over on itself.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1362/5177706314_6bfe7bc9c4_b.jpg
Spent an enjoyable day wrenching on the old guy. I had three sets of
fork seals/bushings leftover from my days as the race team mechanic &
bottle washer. No excuse not to make it right...
--
Charles
'99 YZ250
Posted by Scrape on November 15, 2010, 1:06 am
@news.individual.net:
>> I've got one of those $4.00 Motion Pro seal cleaners that seems to work
>> very well, by the way.
>
> Yeah, next time I'm in Cycle Gear I think I'm going top pick one up.
Pretty sure that's where I picked mine up.
> I
> decided to tear it down, even though I managed to get the leak
> stopped. Too much cognitive dissonance. At least, that's what it felt
> like.
>
> Found the piece of film right where I thought it would be.
>
> http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/5177706310_dbdafcd6b6_b.jpg
Damn.
> It was bigger than I thought it would be, folded over on itself.
>
> http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1362/5177706314_6bfe7bc9c4_b.jpg
>
> Spent an enjoyable day wrenching on the old guy. I had three sets of
> fork seals/bushings leftover from my days as the race team mechanic &
> bottle washer. No excuse not to make it right...
The piece of mind was worth the effort then.
Posted by Volker Bartheld on November 16, 2010, 9:55 am
Hi!
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:59:39 -0800, HardWorkingDog wrote:
> Found the piece of film right where I thought it would be.
> http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/5177706310_dbdafcd6b6_b.jpg
Change the glide bushings while you are at it. They look pretty shot to me.
Doing so on my YZ426 worked wonders!
> Spent an enjoyable day wrenching on the old guy.
Heck - at least it was done RIGHT!
> I had three sets of fork seals/bushings leftover from my days as the race
> team mechanic & bottle washer.
Ah! Excellent! That was what I wanted to hear. Good job!
> No excuse not to make it right...
Exactly. There are - as you put it - just too few heartbeats in a man's
life for NOT making it right.
Cheers,
Volker
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> tried and true method of sliding a piece of 35mm film in to dislodge
> and grit. Managed to break of a corner of the film and it's now
> somewhere above the oil seal and I can't seem to fish it out.
>
> Gahhhhhh.
>
> Should I tear the fork down & put in new seals to get the film out?
>
> It's about a .125" roughly square corner, where the perforations left
> a weakened edge. Gonna use a business card next time....
>
> Have this vision of the film working its way down and plugging up the
> valve.
>