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I have a 2001 500 that just started pouring oil from the seals on both fork tubes. Where is a good place to send them to have them repaired? I do not know if my local Honda dealer would work on a bike this old.

Thanks
Kent

Where are you located?

their pretty easy if you decide to do it yourself. youll save shipping charges and labor costs, but youll have to buy the tools. next time they go bad youll only spend a few dollars for the parts because youll already have the tools. if you dont plan to keep the bike, its probly better you dont accumulate unecesarry tools you wont ever use again. just some thoughts

I am located in north Louisiana. I would try it myself but we already have my son's quad torn apart in the garage so it is more of a convenience thing.

Thanks for helping.
Kent

your honda dealer will replace your fork seals....if they won't take em to another dealer.

you really could do this work yourself in about an hour though.

I change fork seals myself but have sent them out for revalving to Pro-Action in PA.

couple hours might be more realistic . but it is easy job

I use a cut peice of PVC and on older single chamber fork, can do a set of seals in roughly 15-20 minutes, including, removal, and installation of forks as well and changing and measuring out the oil, its REALLY simple on those old forks.
the thin chamber forks are a bit more work, but still pretty simple.

dannygraves wrote: can do a set of seals in roughly 15-20 minutes

pfffttt brit could change seals on conventional forks in 20min

Brit blew a seal once.....


Seal O-FACE!


Said it was EXTRA salty.....

Thanks for all of the info guys, I may have to try this myself as I just called my local Honda dealer and they want +/- $220 plus a two week wait.

Kent

kw, I think I can help you out...sending a pm.

ridin4fun,

PM sent

also not a bad idea to change the slider bushings. my bike was losing fork seals every other ride.....changed the bushings, and no problems since.

NightBiker07 wrote:also not a bad idea to change the slider bushings. my bike was losing fork seals every other ride.....changed the bushings, and no problems since.

pstoffers wrote:

NightBiker07 wrote:also not a bad idea to change the slider bushings. my bike was losing fork seals every other ride.....changed the bushings, and no problems since.

yep, i change the bushings along with seals. if they still look brandnew, then you probly be alright leaving them in.

Thanks for the info about the bushings. I will be looking into the repairs next week.

Kent

100hp honda wrote:

pstoffers wrote:

NightBiker07 wrote:also not a bad idea to change the slider bushings. my bike was losing fork seals every other ride.....changed the bushings, and no problems since.

yep, i change the bushings along with seals. if they still look brandnew, then you probly be alright leaving them in.

chances are that the bushings are still original. mine "looked" fine, but all it takes as that half a mm of play to make it leak.....

I did my own forks on my cr 500. It wasn't that bad. After I finally figured out what I was doing. I probley could cut down the time to about 1 hour.

And 220$ is alittle much for old forks.

I bought a seal driver which might be over kill but I have it for both bikes now. That, and I bought a 14mm hex head socket to unscrew the bottom cap.

Theres a video which shows you sorta whats inside and how to do it. THey are different forks but the video really helped me do it and I am a rookie and then some on working on forks.

Link

http://www.pivotworks.com/index.cfm?fus ... &videoid=1

Thanks for the link.

Kent

I personaly like this brand Synergy seals they seem to last longer than stock or those cheep brands fork seals.

Link:
http://shop.synergyseals.com/main.sc;js ... cstrfrnt01

I rather spend a little more now than changing out seals fork oil more offten due to cheep leaking seals.

Make sure done riding wipe down you'r fork tubes and get the dirt DRYED MUD that kills you seals Keep it clean when you can.

Take care of you bike it take care of you.

AlisoBob wrote:Brit blew a seal once.....


Seal O-FACE!


Said it was EXTRA salty.....

fckn lol bob, thats gold

Sounds like brits in to anything.