mtbmike
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So I have been putting this off for a while now and decided to start to strip down my forks and replace the leaky seals when I ran across this tool made by promotion called a seal mate.
I decided to try it but I was not going to pay 8 bucks for a flimsy peace of plastic and not be sure if it was going to work so I scoured the house and realized I have a old plastic cutting board sheet so I cut it in the shape of the tool and followed the instructions on how to use it and it worked cost me nothing. So here it is. It actually took a lot of crap out of my seals when I was done cleaning i was very surprised this worked took a couple of compressions of the front forks to re seat the lip of the seals as the instructions say and just like that the tubes came clean no more oil leak. Just wanted to pass this along as one thing to try before replacing the seals. It seams to work as advertised but no need to buy the tool I can even still use the cutting board because I just cut out a small section in the corner. Just YouTube the directions on how to use the seal mate.
Funny I just took my Africa twin in for leaking fork seals under warranty although I would never pay for this job and just do it my self the cost to do the repair would have cost me 800.00 YIKES!!!! This tool probably would have worked but I didn't know about it.
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I decided to try it but I was not going to pay 8 bucks for a flimsy peace of plastic and not be sure if it was going to work so I scoured the house and realized I have a old plastic cutting board sheet so I cut it in the shape of the tool and followed the instructions on how to use it and it worked cost me nothing. So here it is. It actually took a lot of crap out of my seals when I was done cleaning i was very surprised this worked took a couple of compressions of the front forks to re seat the lip of the seals as the instructions say and just like that the tubes came clean no more oil leak. Just wanted to pass this along as one thing to try before replacing the seals. It seams to work as advertised but no need to buy the tool I can even still use the cutting board because I just cut out a small section in the corner. Just YouTube the directions on how to use the seal mate.
Funny I just took my Africa twin in for leaking fork seals under warranty although I would never pay for this job and just do it my self the cost to do the repair would have cost me 800.00 YIKES!!!! This tool probably would have worked but I didn't know about it.
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