Maintenance - schedule or whenever?

[racedoll]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Honestly... that is your stand on forks. Better recheck it.

The reason you tear into a fork that is not leaking is... well actually 2 reasons.

1. To prevent from leaking, as stated.
2. To put in new bushings. At which point you have to pull apart forks anyway, and only a moron would use old parts like seals then.

Don't replace the bushings... well that's not so smart. The bushing is what the leg rides against in the fork lower. Once it wears off its brass its done and will start to eat away the fork lower. Not good. That is why you service your forks before they start leaking.

My thoughts exactly, but as tached proved, we don't all think the same way. That is why I posted this thread to see what kind of answers I would get.

My forks have bushings but if they need replaced then I will be replacing the entire fork body as they are non-replaceable on their own. Erik's are the same way. Parts guy even called Kayaba to see if they sold something. Nope. So just seals for us, but I guess you could inspect the bushing at that time.

Originally Posted by tached1000rr

Case in point, Jared has what 177,000 miles last I know of, ask how many times his forks or fork seals have been replaced over the course of those miles. He had just had them rebuilt roughly a month before his unfortunate accident.

Calm down. As I mentioned above we each do things differently and I wanted to see what others had to say. Neither way is right or wrong, just our way.

[tached1000rr]

Racedoll, did my response sound like I was upset? If so, let me clarify that I was not.