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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hppants" data-source="post: 1426573" data-attributes="member: 27852">The seal is stuck - keep "slamming", it will free itself eventually. Put a very thin film of grease on the outside of the seal going back together. The next time will be like butter.BTW - ^^^ that article/how-to write up is very helpful, but you don't have to use that method to change the fork seals. I've been doing fork seals basically this way for years - the hard way.Remove the bottom bolt first, empty the fluid out, then remove the dust seal, the clip, and then "slam" the bushings and seal out. The lower bushing on the upper fork tube (which is really the only bushing that wears) will drive the rest of the stuff out easy peazy. You will need a bushing driver (thin wall tube, think muffler tip like the article above), a seal driver (piece of PVC pipe), and a funnel with a very small discharge opening (so you can fill the fork from the bottom, not the top).</blockquote>