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Sesman:
CB550 F2

Does anybody have experience of the oil seal sets sold by cruzinimage? Just bought a heap of stuff including piston rings, cables etc, but lack confidence with engine stuff and only want to do it once.

Also, what’s the popular opinion on a source for steering head taper bearings? I’ve trawled the site and can’t find anything conclusive.

Thanks in anticipation.

Bryanj:
Silvers sells oil seal sets and races sets. All the taper sets tend to have a too tall top bearing meaning the chrome top nut only screws on a couple of threads, you also have to work out the correct spacer below the bottom inner race

Sesman:
Taper sets sound tricky. :-\. Do I keep the Cruzinimage seals as spares ;)

Sesman:
Guess I’ll have to play Russian roulette on the tapers.
On seals, I wonder from where Long John sources his OEM seals? Same location as our man in Japan? Pure speculation on my behalf.

Bryanj:
Ken, i never used to have problems either but perhaps they are modifying dìfferent ones now, i bought severalindividual bearings from Hi-level and had no problems either but keep reading about problems both on US board and here.
To original poster i put a 1mm shim washer on the strm before the inner for lower and thatjust let the yoke clear the headstock, be advised things vary and you need the thinnest possible to stop yoke touching

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