Help. 1150 Fork Seals corroded and stuck!

[rob18362]

My winter re-build of 1999, 80K mile 1150GS is giving me a hard time at the moment! Tonight I thought I'd keep things simple and just do the fork seals. Well par for the course the metal within the seal has corroded and swollen so the seals are wedged tight in the sliders.
Can anyone help with techniques to remove seals that don't want to come out.
Maybe tomorrow will be a better night- and then again maybe I made the wrong decision and should have traded it in for a newer model!!
Thanks, Rob.

 

[Steptoe]

Don't know if you've seen [URL="http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97873"]THIS[/URL], but might help if you haven't.

The seals are meant to be tight- if they weren't, they'd leak

Also not sure what you mean by the seal being corroded

 

[cascat]

Same happened to me

I read thru Steptoes step by step guide after my left hand seal went this week, Got next day delivery from Rainbow and went to work

Now whenever i see 'simple job, takes 10 mins or so' I make a note 'so probably an hour and a a half' Any way, simple till I get to removing the old seal What a tw*t!!! Finally came out so with relief I continued..................... Till I get to the small air bleed bolt on top of the fork stanchion Now I was carefull but it wouldn't budge....so in fear of stripping in I just left it and finished the job

Question....will it be alright?
What do you think...

 

[rob18362]

Got that seal out.

Just for info what I mean't by the seal being corroded was that the inner steel ring moulded into the rubber was corroded and swollen. This was obvious from the swollen look of the seal where the small rectangular indents are on the top face of the seal. Anyway with a long tyre lever and not being too precious about the top of the fork slider they're out.
As far as Cascat not bleeding the air out I would thing that the seal is likely to blow again due to excess pressure created re-inserting the fork leg. Am I right Steptoe?