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20-09-2017, 10:40 AM | #1 |
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Fork stanchion query
(I've also posted this in the "I Want" section.) The left-side fork stanchion on my '95 M900 has a few small but deep pitting marks and has chewed up a new fork seal in less than 3,000 miles. I suspect the bumpy Portuguese mountain roads I used in May did not exactly help! Does anyone perhaps have a really good one that I can buy, please? It's the very early Showa non-adjustable type (with 'Ducati' in raised letters on the bottom alloy section)?
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20-09-2017, 10:57 AM | #2 |
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Just a thought and it obviously takes longer than fitting new but you could likely get the tube re-chromed for not too much money.
Alternatively a new tube might be cheaper than you think?...
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20-09-2017, 11:00 AM | #3 |
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I posted a company (HCP) that did mine on your previous thread.
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20-09-2017, 11:10 AM | #4 |
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I came across some neoprene, wrap around protector "socks" a while back.
They look pretty naff but if you're going back to the Portugese mountain roads anytime in the future it might be worth fitting a pair for the journey. The company/brand is "cream carbon" (told you they were naff). |
20-09-2017, 07:47 PM | #5 |
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Cheers Jeff, I have a pair of those fitted to my Evo
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07-10-2017, 11:33 AM | #6 |
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My belated thanks for the replies. Sorted - I've ordered a new one. I think the result of the very bumpy mountain roads - and a few off-road trackways - that I used was that the forks repeatedly compressed even more than in the UK, and the seal was damaged by constantly passing over the long-standing slight pits in the chrome.
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