Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive
 

Subject: Re: FORK SEALS

Author: Paul Linn

Date: Aug 16, 2002, 7:32 AM

Post ID: 1710818210

You might also be losing oil from the tiny screw at the bottom of the forks.
Has a fiber, plastic or aluminum washer on it.

Paul
Richmond, Va
73 Eldo custom project
76 T3 basket
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Sahms" <fr-@fredsgarage.net>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: FORK SEALS


 How near the top? The actual seal lives in the chrome part that threads
on the lower black steel section. The cap on top, that is tightened to
pull the taper up into the top triple clamp, has an o-ring that could be
bad, allowing a leak, but if ALL your fork oil is gone, I doubt it would
all has escaped at the top.

There is also a thin o-ring that seals the chromed seal holder to the
steel lower.

If you're going to do this, I'd pull the wheel, fender, etc. and yank
the legs out.

Robert Hawkes wrote:
 Tom and Fred,
By the way, my forks leak near the top, that is the oil starts way at
the
top and runs down. I have never seen oil near the bottom of the forks (
I
always wipe off excess oil before it can get to the bottom of the
forks).
So, before I go after the wrong problem is this the fork seal or is it
something else wrong with the fork? Thanks again, Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Bowes <kk-@comcast.net>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: RE: FORK SEALS


 Bob,

The degree of ease or difficulty depends on how handy you are and what
tools you end up needing. If you're fairly good with a wrench it
should
 
 
 be no big deal to get the forks off the bike. Removing the collars
that
 
 
 contain the seals can be a pain if you don't have the wrench, but
sometimes they just come apart without a lot of sweating and
straining.
 
 
 The seals themselves are nothing special, just generic metric oil
seals.
 
 
 Putting the forks back on the bike can be challenging without the aid
of
 
 
 the tool to draw the tubes back up into the upper clamp.


Robert Hawkes wrote:
 


Here's a question. How easy/difficult is it to change the fork
seals
 
 on
 
 a 69 Ambo.? I find I have no oil left in my forks. Do I need
special
 
 
 
 tools? Bob



Tom

Shelby Township, MI

Early '70 Ambo
1980 G5
1982 V50III



73 Eldo in crates
78 T3/949

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