Finally got on my 07 Bulldog, seems it always is raining in PA. Washed and then went for a spirited ride n the hills. This morning from around the front axel seem to be steams of dried oil going fro the seal up the forks a few inched. Dies this mean the front axel seal is probably leaking and needs replaced? Or water from the wash got around and just ran when I rode the bile. Does feel oily.
Front seal leaking? or last washing?
- Thread starter mirage814
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My assumption would be, it rained and I let the bike spot up and now I am washing it. Backup to when it was in the rain. Rust begins when rain meets a pore in a chrome leg. So there is possibly a variable of a pitted fork finish. Now add, how many times you washed the bike and/or was caught in the rain and never dried the water down the fork's beauty cover... with a flat paper towel down the gap? Soak up a rust potential?
That does sound like the seal may have held its last breath of that oil being retained. Water is a lube and it thins out to run past a cut seal, clings into the pores and the oil displaces the water in pores. What color is the oil? Milky tan brown is water mixed with oil.
Look for a leak at the highest point so you do not conflict a leaking fork seal to a leaking axle seal.