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CB400/4 FRONT FORK REFURB BY JULIE
JamesH:
Have to agree with the above Julie. I think the seals are in upside down....the open 'spring' side should be facing the medium its trying to seal...
Nurse Julie:
Well Kevski , thanks so much for your input and your concern and now I'm really worried. Yes, I put them back on the way they came off with the spring facing upwards. I will have to look at some pictures and speak to Trig later, to see the correct way up. I assumed they went that way, as like I said, that's the way they come out. Also, if they were supposed to be fitted 'spring' facing down, how would you know the spring was in the correct place, or even there at all and not fallen down the fork?. I will report back.
Nurse Julie:
Thanks as well James, I'm on the case :-[ :-[ :-[
Nurse Julie:
By what I have found so far, yes, it looks like I have them in upside down :'( :'( :'(
In the Shop Manual is says 'press fit the new seal, using seal driver part number blablabla' I am now thinking that if I had put the seal in the other way up and used a seal driver, which I didn't, the driver would then make contact with the 'flat' side of the seal and not the side with the recess and the spring in. No wonder I found them so tight to get in !!!
No worries, I will just have to do it again, the right way up. I will show it to Trig though before I take them apart and start again. Learning curves.......don't you just love em. Thanks to you lot for being so observant, what would I do without you.
taysidedragon:
I suppose it's a lesson to all of us. Never assume that the old parts were fitted correctly in the first place!
Even factory original parts can be fitted wrongly. :-\
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