Leaking fork seals

[Tezza_imp]

Well the new fork seals have made no difference. In fact it seems to be leaking more oil now. I'll have to bite the bullet and have the legs hardchromed. I'm going to blame that swarm of grasshoppers I ran into just before they started to leak. Whatever they have inside them must be corrosive plus the fact that Honda must have waved the forks past the chrome bath as the coating is ultra thin as evidenced by the small amount of rust spots appearing between the upper and lower triple clamps. My Z1 Kawasaki has 40 year old forks on it and I have just replaced the seals as a precaution after 65000 miles......no leaks.
Also found that one of my horns stopped working at about the same time. Dang grasshoppers. Even my jacket was plastered with yellow crap from them.

 

[Cormanus]

Yet another reminder that, beautiful though they are, the build quality of the CB1100 leaves more than a little to be desired.

 

[Lord Popgun]

Tezza, look at this parts diagram please: http://www.partsfish.com/oemparts/a/hon/52f28bf3f870021404ec5a3a/front-fork

They did change item 19 right? not just item 25? Any chance they just buggered up the new seals? I had that happen once and had to redo them myself.

 

[Tezza_imp]

Checked the seal dimensions on the old seals...they were the same as the new ones. You can see in the photo where the dust seal and the oil seal rest on the chrome. It has corroded away.

 

[Tezza_imp]

Dropped off the fork tubes today. They will come back with a 7 micron layer of chrome instead of the 3 microns they currently have.

 

[Elipten_imp]

I am disappointed in Honda quality an some parts.


2014 CB1100 DLX
2013 CB1100 Std
1990 BMW K75 RT

 

[Motogeezer1949_imp]

Plenty of good aftermarket seals out there.

 

[Jim21680_imp]

Anyone else replace these yet? The work involved is nothing crazy, but I'm wondering if others have gone with OEM parts, or aftermarket products.

 

[peterbaron]

Dust boots are cracking = need replacement as well, while doing seals.
Do it right or don't do it at all.
Pics upon compilation

 

[the Ferret]

I don't see any fork seal leak, just the dust boot dry cracking. If it were me I'd skip it until winter and ride.

 

[PowerDubs_imp]

Agreed- that is just cosmetic at this point....

 

[Jim21680_imp]

I figured it wouldn't be worth doing until the seals actually go. I'm around 15,000 miles now, and I see stories of the seals going around 20+....so it may not be a long wait.

I didn't even notice until I was replacing my tires this past weekend. I'm glad that project went well!

 

[the Ferret]

Open air work space ...nice lol

 

[peterbaron]

I like that "no roof shop", pleasure to work on the CB during a nice day.