{"id":70899,"date":"2012-06-21T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=70899"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:21","slug":"the-rumored-skf-oil-seal-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20120621\/everyday-events\/the-rumored-skf-oil-seal-story","title":{"rendered":"The Rumored SKF Oil Seal Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing quite favorable rumors about it<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63344765_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;SKF FORK SEAL KIT&#8221;<br \/>\nThree sets for the GSF1200 and one set for the GS1000S<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63344765_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Pretty minimal packaging\u2014the seals are right there in the box<br \/>\nThe dust seal comes with a spring too<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63344765_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The oil seal side has springs on the outside as well\u2014pretty standard these days, I&#8217;d say.<br \/>\nThey happen to make a 40 mm version<br \/>\nMy GS1000S has a Yoshimura KYB 40 mm fork<br \/>\nI had them measure the spare seal and check if SKF would be close<br \/>\nI think it should work out<br \/>\nI&#8217;d also like to switch the machined 41 mm fork from the other day to SKF<br \/>\nIf this can reduce low friction and leaks even a little<br \/>\neveryone&#8217;s wallet will be happy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing quite favorable rumors about it&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8220;SKF FORK SEAL KIT&#8221; Three sets for the GSF1200 and one set for the GS1000S&nbsp; &nbsp;Pretty minimal packaging\u2014the seals are right there in the box The dust seal comes with a spring too&nbsp; &nbsp;The oil seal side has springs on the outside as well\u2014pretty standard these days, I&#8217;d say. They happen to make a 40 mm version My GS1000S has a Yoshimura KYB 40 mm fork I had them measure the spare seal and check if SKF would be close I think it should work out I&#8217;d also like to switch the machined 41 mm fork from the other day to SKF If this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-70899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}