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Fork Shrouds Rubbing on Seal Carriers and Lowers
By: patentgeek Date: June 18, 2018, 12:40 am
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My fork shrouds are angled towards the rear of the bike and
appear to be rubbing on the seal carriers and fork lowers. I've
seen pics of other bikes that appear to have the same problem.
Is there a solution for this?
The parts manual shows a couple of rubber rings that supposedly
keep the fork shrouds concentric to the fork tubes. Is this
correct? And if so, would replacing these solve the shroud
rubbing issue?
On my bike, approximately 38mm of the seal carrier shows past
the bottom of the fork shroud when the bike is on the
centerstand.
#Post#: 2384--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fork Shrouds Rubbing on Seal Carriers and Lowers
By: randall Date: June 18, 2018, 3:47 am
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The parts manual shows a couple of rubber rings that supposedly
keep the fork shrouds concentric to the fork tubes. Is this
correct? yes
would replacing these solve the shroud rubbing issue?yes if no
other distortions are present on the forks
yes approximately 38mm of the seal carrier shows past the bottom
of the fork shroud when the bike is on the centerstand.
#Post#: 2387--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fork Shrouds Rubbing on Seal Carriers and Lowers
By: patentgeek Date: June 18, 2018, 3:59 pm
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Thanks for the quick response.
My forks seem to operate normally (i.e., like pogo sticks), so I
don't think anything is bent. And I pinged another local Nuovo
Falcone owner who is also a professional motorcycle mechanic,
and she responded that her forks have the same issue.
I'll report back if we come up with an easy fix. But I suspect
this will require disassembling the forks and replacing bits.
Maybe replacing the lower rubber ring with a delrin or nylon
piece that is less subject to distortion. I had planned to tear
the forks down to install SR500 fork seals anyway.
#Post#: 2398--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fork Shrouds Rubbing on Seal Carriers and Lowers
By: banquo Date: June 23, 2018, 2:25 pm
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Mine have the rubber rings, and they don't scrape FWIW.
Are you saying that yours doesn't have the rings?
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Re: Fork Shrouds Rubbing on Seal Carriers and Lowers
By: JamesNFalconaut Date: June 23, 2018, 5:48 pm
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Somewhere on Leafman's blog, I think Kater wrote of fitting
rubber spacers from a Yamaha. SR500 or XS650 maybe
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Re: Fork Shrouds Rubbing on Seal Carriers and Lowers
By: banquo Date: June 24, 2018, 6:09 pm
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Kater's solution was to fit the Yamaha dust caps to stop water
getting into the fork lowers. He said the OEM part was required
and aftermarket ones don't fi. Link might be here?
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