Fork seals leaking after replacement
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07-02-2012, 05:23 PM
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Relief all round!
If a garage was unable to do a relatively (for them, at least) easy job like replacing a set of fork seals, I wouldn't be using them again. There was a bike shop within easy (5 min) walking distance from my house I took my old GPz900R to, to have a new exhaust fitted, and their "mechanic" didn't bother reconnecting the hoses to the water pump properly - ten minutes and a few miles later, I'd dumped all the coolant down the back tire. After they fixed the mistake, it was the last time I ever set foot in there, and I told them why...
Good luck finding a better place to look after your bike, Hojen!
Dave.
If a garage was unable to do a relatively (for them, at least) easy job like replacing a set of fork seals, I wouldn't be using them again. There was a bike shop within easy (5 min) walking distance from my house I took my old GPz900R to, to have a new exhaust fitted, and their "mechanic" didn't bother reconnecting the hoses to the water pump properly - ten minutes and a few miles later, I'd dumped all the coolant down the back tire. After they fixed the mistake, it was the last time I ever set foot in there, and I told them why...
Good luck finding a better place to look after your bike, Hojen!
Dave.
Well I'm still a novice regarding bike repairs but if it wasn't the seals I imagined
there could be something wrong with the tubes, legs or whatever involved with the forks.
I even looked after spare fork tubes on E-bay just in case.. So in the end I was so
relieved and happythat it wasn't anything worse than the seals
Best is if you can look after your bike yourself, think we have learned that if nothing else..
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07-02-2012, 05:40 PM
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07-03-2012, 03:41 AM
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Thanks SB, good thought.
Of course you're right TBT, I got an excuse for that too as you may imagine. The owner told me he never would
have let me ride off on the bike if he had known it leaked that much, it was one of his employees who worked
on the bike. Then he blamed stress and that they had soo many bikes in the shop and sooo much to do.. yeah..
Well I've learned a great deal out of this, one thing is, always recheck a job done by someone else.
Btw, TBT if you quote me, please quote me correctly and don't mix with
my text, thanks.
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Originally Posted by Hojen77
Hurraay! My bike is back from the workshop and this time they did it right. No leaking whatsoever
Of course you're right TBT, I got an excuse for that too as you may imagine. The owner told me he never would
have let me ride off on the bike if he had known it leaked that much, it was one of his employees who worked
on the bike. Then he blamed stress and that they had soo many bikes in the shop and sooo much to do.. yeah..
Well I've learned a great deal out of this, one thing is, always recheck a job done by someone else.
Btw, TBT if you quote me, please quote me correctly and don't mix with
my text, thanks.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hojen77
Hurraay! My bike is back from the workshop and this time they did it right. No leaking whatsoever
Last edited by Sprock; 07-03-2012 at 05:51 AM.
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