Help | Leaking front fork while 500 miles from home!!!!!

[Ogmios]

Lift dust cover.
Clean around the seal with a piece of suitable plastic. (credit cards too thick / milk carton maybe too thin. Maybe an oil container? ).
If not too thick* you can carefully get it under the edge between fork leg and seal and clean out any muck that's causing the leak ... sometimes - if the leaks not too bad)

With a sharp blade, cut up a tampon to fit above seal / below dust cover.
Slide dust cover back down firmly to cover the tampon bits.

*the plastic / not you.

Good luck.
.............

p.s: the plastic - it's a home made one of these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwBg8jQfjFE&t=1s

 

[Stanley Knife]

I have a spare seal and dust cover in Muir of Ord if you're stuck
Been a while since I changed one but its not a big job.

 

[daveg]

Lift dust cover.
Clean around the seal with a piece of suitable plastic. (credit cards too thick / milk carton maybe too thin. Maybe an oil container? ).
If not too thick* you can carefully get it under the edge between fork leg and seal and clean out any muck that's causing the leak ... sometimes - if the leaks not too bad)

With a sharp blade, cut up a tampon to fit above seal / below dust cover.
Slide dust cover back down firmly to cover the tampon bits.

*the plastic / not you.

Good luck.
.............

p.s: the plastic - it's a home made one of these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwBg8jQfjFE&t=1s

Feeler gauges work quite well for this job as well.

 

[Wizards-Online]

Finished the trip and made it home without issue. New seal fitted today. What an easy job. Never done it before so a little nervous, but it was a doddle.

Thanks all for the info!