15-11-12, 12:15 AM
Hi unfazed, ah right I understand what you meant now, I was always under the impression that to keep it even you would just replace both at once though, they arrive as a pair etc and cant remember but I think the Haynes suggests it. Interestingly with your point about impact damage though, the bike is in brilliant condition except for a fairly large crack and hole in the front fairing on the left side above the leaky fork which is quite annoying as everything else looks great, doesn't look like its been down the road at any point. I was actually considering street-fightering the bike because of it but to be honest I like the square eye fairing and clocks and didn't like how the clocks are bodge mounted on others I have seen plus didn't fancy spending loads on a replacement naff digital one. Do you think that could be part of the issue? I can take some photos of the forks and fairing damage if you like so you can have a look, I can remove them from the bike and clean them up although I do quite often like you say clean them with wd-40 and a cloth when I clean the rest of the bike. To be honest, as soon as I got the forks back and refitted them I went for a ride about 50 miles or so and straight away when I got home I had a look and saw some oil residue on the fork on the left which was really annoying. When I fitted the forks, I did give them a pretty good pump to make sure it all felt good and there was no leaking immediately at that point but I guess me pushing on them is a lot less force than having to break from 60-70mph even though I was being as rough as I felt would be necessary to see any leaks. When we took the forks apart like I say we didnt get the lowers away from the tubes so didn't get to see how the bottom of the tubes looked, but they do look good above the seal with no real bad corrosion that I can see. :\