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Offline grumpy

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"Good" fork seals?
« on: July 25, 2014, 07:03:40 AM »
Any preferred fork seals for a 750K3?
Any that should be avoided?

With all the variability in quality of replacement parts these days I figured I should ask before making a mess...

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Re: "Good" fork seals?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2014, 07:20:18 AM »
I have always had good luck with OEM seals.

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Re: "Good" fork seals?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2014, 07:23:10 AM »
Quote from: andy750 on July 25, 2014, 07:20:18 AM
I have always had good luck with OEM seals.

cheers
Andy
I'd agree with that. IF you want to enter the controversial zones, the brand "Leak-Proof" (Google it) has never failed me, but sure has failed others.


Here's one distributor:http://www.thunderproducts.com/Leakproofforkseals.htm
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Re: "Good" fork seals?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2014, 07:25:38 AM »
OEM is hard to beat, Hondaman did talk about seals that were slightly thinner than stock could help if you can find them.
I also heard someone talking about SKF seals being pretty good if they are sized for our forks.
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"Good" fork seals?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2014, 08:44:08 AM »
Most of my bikes has all balls seals, one has leak proof brand, none of them have ever failed
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Re: "Good" fork seals?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2014, 10:48:26 AM »
OEMs are on the way.
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