Replacing neck bearings after wrapping up the engine rebuild on a Cb750 K5 not intending to do the forks but went into them to freeze the tree to get that bearing on. One of the ears has two small holes the width of a pencil, planning on order a pair of ears from eBay. Three questions:
1.) lots of rust on the fork tube (see photo), but only underneath the ears. Seems like I should be ok to clean them up and reuse them as the rust isn’t in the functional portion of the tube. Any reasons that isn’t ok?
2.) Any recommendations for sources of the tubes or ears?
3.) if I leave the tubes is it ok to reuse the seals on the ears? The ears have a big hole (the seal-less square hole that’s supposed to be there where the tree comes out) on the side, so it’s not like the seals are keeping out all the moisture, just some of it. If I garage keep the bike, maybe those ear seals are not a big deal?
Would love to get this back together before fall and maybe come back to the forks. Ship times on all these parts are so slow with covid. Last order from Partzilla took 3 weeks even though the distribution center is 3 hours away
