Jono
March 25th, 2015, 08:59 PM
So the guy I bought my SV650 from said he replaced the fork seals before I bought it because they were both leaking. And I believe that he was telling the truth because all the other fluids (-coolant) on the bike were changed/new when I bought it. But I noticed the day I bought it both forks slowly weeped out oil. After any ride there was always a bit of oil around the dust seal on both the forks. I always just wiped it up so that it wouldn't collect then spill over onto the brakes. And this oil was also very clean which also makes me believe he was telling the truth.
Then my SV went down with transmission issues so this issue was the least of my worries, but now that the bike is up and running I need to get to the bottom of this.
So I looked under the dust seal thinking that I would see a pool of fork oil under these seals. But there wasn't any. :confused: I then looked at the parts graphic and started to think the bushings(10)&(5) might have worn out causing the fork seals to have a poor seal when being compressed. This would make sense, assuming the guy I bought it from really did change the fork seals but not the bushings. And so you know, the bike has almost 27K miles so the forks have some mileage on them.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7632/16746555509_ab97cfd3bb_z.jpg[/url]
I believe it might be the bushings because there are streak marks on the lower portion of the inner tube which might be caused from worn out bushings?
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7602/16932689765_6fb65d8f91_z.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7628/16312647633_6a1f17f2d3_z.jpg
What do y'all think? I've never dealt with leaky forks before on any of my bikes. I've seen blown forks on a friends dual sport but with that, there was oil everywhere. Mine is a slowwww leak.
Then my SV went down with transmission issues so this issue was the least of my worries, but now that the bike is up and running I need to get to the bottom of this.
So I looked under the dust seal thinking that I would see a pool of fork oil under these seals. But there wasn't any. :confused: I then looked at the parts graphic and started to think the bushings(10)&(5) might have worn out causing the fork seals to have a poor seal when being compressed. This would make sense, assuming the guy I bought it from really did change the fork seals but not the bushings. And so you know, the bike has almost 27K miles so the forks have some mileage on them.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7632/16746555509_ab97cfd3bb_z.jpg[/url]
I believe it might be the bushings because there are streak marks on the lower portion of the inner tube which might be caused from worn out bushings?
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7602/16932689765_6fb65d8f91_z.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7628/16312647633_6a1f17f2d3_z.jpg
What do y'all think? I've never dealt with leaky forks before on any of my bikes. I've seen blown forks on a friends dual sport but with that, there was oil everywhere. Mine is a slowwww leak.