Front Fork Link

[bigjimbiker]

I purchased a 05 last Friday (32,000 miles). Today I rode it for the first time around town without a helmet on and noticed a air (swishing) sound when riding over any bumps in the road. I looked at the forks and the right one looks a little wet. Would this just be a seal or am I going to have to the forks rebuilt or ??? I'm not much of a mechanic and don't know much about this.
Thanks,

Rod

I purchased a new 08AE in 09 at a healthy discount and am very happy with the bike. Put new tires on at 8,000 miles and the tech noticed some leakage on the right fork. Yamaha footed the bill for replacement parts and after a two week wait for one backorded seal I was back on the road and grinnin' again. Alas after another 1,000 miles I noticed more leakage on the same side and she's back in the shop for another go round. I think if it happens again I'll be asking for a total new fork assembly. One of my friends theorized that since it was a leftover model, the seals may have become brittle and maybe a grain of sand could have scored the main tube...I don't know but regardless, it's not a problem I remember from the past and I hope it gets fixed soon...bigjimbiker :glare:

By-the-way, I have one word for the guy in the awful photograph, "GESUNDHEIT!"

 

[rsjb41]

Same problem. '04 with 30K right fork seal leaking. Any ballpark on repair costs? Should I have both done? Problem is it leaks onto the right caliper/pads/rotor so new pads also.

They told me it would be $200 to change oil and replace the seals in both forks.

 

[rsjb41]

When I see the fork leak issue come up I like to mention my '04 FJRABS. Right fork leaked, was fixed, leaked again, fixed, leaked again. Two different wrenches, two sides of the country. Both well respected.
I asked the second wrench to fix again, and to check out all very carefully since there was something wrong, but appartently hard for even an experienced "well respected" wrench to find. Right hand tube was flawed, little flaws in the surface hardly noticeable, and a part of the flaws were where the seal rested on the tube when the bike was on the centerstand, and some were elsewhere in traveled and nontraveled areas.

I'm hoping I'm not seeing a pattern here...I see someone else said the same thing.