- Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:35 am
#100289
I've always had the feeling that my 1999 500 Lightning was a bit of a Friday afternoon special. When I first checked it over. It had loose nuts and bolts. It even had a couple missing. Anyway....
After 11 years of ownership. One of the front forks started leaking. Not bad really. The seals were over 20 years old. If I'm going to change the seals in one fork. I might as well do both. I've just dismantled the lower forks and I was presented with a bit of a horror story.
One circlip had rusted away (I'm not complaining really). The other circlip was missing. Even worse. There were supposed to be two seals in each leg. There was only one! The seals hadn't been driven all the down the leg. So from the top. Everything looked fine.
What a bodge!
After 11 years of ownership. One of the front forks started leaking. Not bad really. The seals were over 20 years old. If I'm going to change the seals in one fork. I might as well do both. I've just dismantled the lower forks and I was presented with a bit of a horror story.
One circlip had rusted away (I'm not complaining really). The other circlip was missing. Even worse. There were supposed to be two seals in each leg. There was only one! The seals hadn't been driven all the down the leg. So from the top. Everything looked fine.
What a bodge!
1999 Lightning 500