Reply to thread

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 17594" data-attributes="member: 253">I did the seals 2nd week after I got her and they lasted 2 weeks so I did them again but this time I remembered this old girl has done some big miles and she is an older lady so I tried to order bushings but only lowers were in stock in Oz (2 days to arrive) the uppers had to come from Japan or some where and would take 3 - 6 weeks so the old upper bushings are still in there. Best thing I did was polish the tubes with 4000 grit (not 400) 4000 grit wet sanding paper. This takes a little time but if you wipe down then dip the paper in water, wipe up then dip, wipe down then dip and keep going with that for a bit longer yet you wont scratch the chrome but you will remove any small burs in the surface caused by stone hits and this I think made the differance, those seals have been in for 2 years now :grin: Trick part was how much oil to put in. My manual shows xxx for UK models and yyy for US models and both those countries are 1/2 a world away from here so I put in less than UK and more than US  :rtfm: Good luck <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>