rvf fork seals. whats the trick??

[monkeywithaplan]

hi all.

how in the feck do you get the damned oil seal seated without wrecking the seal? everything else not a problem. whats the trick to getting that wee bugger in and seated square? pushing with my fingers doesnt work, and cant seem to find a suitable drift that wont hurt the seal.

[911f]

not sure how much experience you've had with seals. so don't be offended. they need to be driven in. you can't simply push them in. You need either a driver of the right size, or to make one out of pvc the size of the outer diamter of the seal. I have also split to old seals in half and used one half gently as a driver and slow work around circumferentially. Its easy to ruin the seal doing that however. So if you are new to it, get the right driver or make one from PVC pipe - either buy the right diamter to fit over the slider - if you can find the perfect diameter , cut long strips along the PVC tube to allow it to narrow on itself to fit perfectly and use zip ties to hold at that diameter. I also found on the rvf that its very easy to 'overdrive' the seal in place. so check frequently and just get it in far enough so the circlip can fit under the lip on the fork.

ask a buddy for some hands on advice if you haven't done before.

good luck

[GF Racing]

We sell our own make - plastic precision Fork seal driver tool @ £40

Must have sold literally hundreds - you will wonder why you ever tried anything else.

Makes fork bush and fork seal fitment a 30 second perfect easy job every time.

Available for the CBR4 - ZXR4 - RVF - NC30 - CBR6 - VFR750 family.

On upside down forks you simply split the tool into two halves.

£4 delivery UK

Cheers

[dx400r]

I bought one off GF and it makes it annoying easily. Especially when it took you ages to make the forks seperate

[monkeywithaplan]

lol, no offence taken 911f. i am a haynes manual DIY'er. first time working on fork seals. Graham, is it the one tool for all these models forks. i would have an nc30 with late spec forks also. so the RVF tool would work with these aswell?

cheers
david

[nakes999]

I use a PVC pipe split into two.. worked for me...

[GF Racing]

My same tool does all ....

Graeme

[Spike16]

I used a piece of a patio heater that loz had modified to be a perfect seal driver, same idea as graeme's just poverty spec :) its a real hard job without a tool with its 30seconds