BlackAndBlue
Junior Member
I rebuilt my forks mostly to put stiffer springs in. I installed 1kg racetech springs. I used all balls fork seals and dust seals. Everything was spotlessly clean before being assembled. I pressed the seals in with an appropriately sized fork seal installation tool. I filled the forks carefully to 130 mm of 15w fluid with the springs out and the legs compressed. After it was back together I went for one ride and by the time I got back the seals were leaking profusely. As though there was no seal at all. What could I have done wrong? The only things I could think of to cause this would be too much fluid or debris in the forks but I was careful to not allow those to be issues. What could have gone wrong? The one other possibility I thought of is that I didn't oil the fork tube before sliding the seal down and the seals were damaged?