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RE: Oil discolored in one fork leg only - bad seal?


From: Ken Durstine <kdurstine@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Oil discolored in one fork leg only - bad seal?
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:20:58 -0700

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Vladimir sez:

I am installing Ricor Intiminators <http://tinyurl.com/yzwkk9f> into my
front forks.

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Interesting variation on race tech cartridge emulators. Be interesting
to see which works better. Especially if the inertia valves work good
with the stock springs. It will be interesting to see how fast the
"inertia" function works on surfaces that "chatter" the front
suspension,  the inertia valves appear to work based on acceleration of
the valve body, in a chatter situation, there may not be enough time for
the inertia valves to kick in. Still, I bet they are substantial
improvement over the stock forks or just progressive springs.

I suspect that the fork seal is going bad and you are sucking moist air
into the fork guts and that is why your fluid is discolored in leg. Only
an exam will tell you if the dust seal or the bushing  is also going
bad. Seems like remember you have a fair amount of miles on your bike,
replacing the bushings and dust seal could be considered preventative
maintenance at this point, but on the other, just replacing the seal is
easy enough if it turns out that you decide to replace the bushings etc
at a later date.

Skinny Kenny


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