Scott's 14 (First bike)

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Or move somewhere warm where you dont need heated grips, then you dont need to modify your switchgear snd you can have your bar end mirrors too.

[KiwiCol]

Wot?  You want more whinging over there?        or are you thinking of Greece or Turkey?   

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Qatar, Doha, Yemen are all nice and warm....

[Kiwifruit]

Qatar, Doha, Yemen are all nice and warm....

......where women dress up like a letterbox

[J16SDA]

So had my bike in for the fork seals doing and oil replacing. Got the bike home and went out for a ride 170miles was sooo much better not as firm and harsh as before.

Parked the bike up for a couple of days and came back to a puddle of oil next to the right hand fork as you sit on the bike. Looks to be leaking from the dust cover. Does this mean the new seal might have been damaged whilst putting it back together? If I pump the forks up and down it leaks out a little?

Feeling frustrated as the mot is due in a couple of weeks and it'll probably fail on that. So going to have to send it back to where it was done and get then to fix it...

[Hooli]

Yup, sounds like the seal again. Make sure they used genuine seals (fitted the right way up, they've got three lips & need fitting so two hold the oil in). Genuine are about £10 a side so not mega money for a trouble free life.

No one seems to have any luck with aftermarket ones. After market dust seals are ok, but the actual fork seals aren't.

[grog]

Get back onto them Mate, not good enough.

[KiwiCol]

Yup, sounds like the seal again. Make sure they used genuine seals (fitted the right way up, they've got three lips & need fitting so two hold the oil in). Genuine are about £10 a side so not mega money for a trouble free life.

No one seems to have any luck with aftermarket ones. After market dust seals are ok, but the actual fork seals aren't.

I reckon that's what they've done, put the seal in the wrong way.

[Hooli]

It always surprises me even the factory manual doesn't mention which way up they go.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Hmm, I used aftermarket seals on mine when I rebuilt them last year, no issues to date.  You have to pay attention which way they go on (take a photo of the old ones when they come out), plus I put a smear of grease in the seal lips before they go on, stops them dragging and potentially rolling when you slide the staunchion in. 

Agree though, only the oem ones use 3 seal rings.

[grog]

From memory, Kawasaki fit and are same as OEM. 1/2 price rings a bell.

[seth]

You are correct but in the UK Suzuki dropped the price to match the lower Kawasaki price a while ago .

[J16SDA]

Another small update...

Had the bike back in for the leaking seal.

Replaced the seals again and no leak so far, booked in for mot today and passed with a couple of advisories

Rear Tyre (which I knew was getting low)
Rear pads (which I was told the previous owner had replaced and I've only done about 1500 miles)

All in all I'm happy 😊

[Hooli]

My experience is the rear calipers like to stick & wear the pads out quickly, so worth keeping an eye on if it eats them.

[grog]

Agree Hooli. Mines been cleaned, lubed seals, all the normal stuff. Rotor always runs hotter than fronts.Front after quiet run, 80 degrees, rear 120. 5 sets of rear pads to 1 front. No idea what causes it. Just seems too much drag on pads when in free mode.No adjustment so no way i know to fix. Doesnt really worry me but very strange.