CapnDenny1
Well-known member
I noticed while I had the bike up on the center stand that there was a few streaks of something across the tire, as if something had leaked. Now that I finished the rear shock repair I took the bike down off the center stand and it has been on the sidestand a few days. Now I see another set of streaks across the tire. This is coming from the bottom of the right side fork tube. I put my fingers down on the bottom and I brought back a little bit of oil. It's not a fast leak, because it holds air pressure pretty well. From my study of the front forks it doesn't look like the main seal failure would even cause a leak of the oil? Maybe that's wrong, but that's how it looks to me? There is no oil on the fork tubes above the dust seal. So this is the drain plug for the front forks. It's about a $1.80 part. I'm thinking I can just pull the wheel off and take the fork oil drain bolt out, after releasing the air pressure and just replace the washer and I should be good to go. But I guess I need to replace the oil then. I really don't want to dissaemble the forks if I don't have to. What do you guys think? It's not a bad leak, but who knows how much oil is left in there now. And I don't want oil dripping onto the brake disk.