{"id":71870,"date":"2012-02-17T22:57:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=71870"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:35","slug":"gsx-r750-rk-fork-seal-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20120217\/everyday-events\/gsx-r750-rk-fork-seal-replacement","title":{"rendered":"GSX-R750 RK Fork Seal Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63116572_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> the fork is leaking like crazy, so we&#8217;re replacing the seals \u2605<br \/>\nIf it doesn&#8217;t look good, we&#8217;ll swap out the inner tubes too, yeah?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll touch it up while I&#8217;m at it. That&#8217;s what I said!<br \/>\nBut then I polished it with this Scour-Lite Flap,<br \/>\nand it came out super clean \u2605 I got so into it I just kept going and going.<br \/>\nSo we&#8217;re out of spray, and I don&#8217;t have a ride, and driving a car sounds like a pain.<br \/>\nI figured having someone else drive the car is the best way to go, and right then<br \/>\nYaru-ze George! showed up.<br \/>\nI had him make the rounds to Togashi Engineering and Autobacs\u2026<br \/>\nand I ended up keeping today&#8217;s customer waiting\u2014that&#8217;s the worst! Sorry about that <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63116572_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> It came out this clean! <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63116572_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> Well, all that effort paid off\u2014it&#8217;s looking pretty quality now.<br \/>\nAt this point it&#8217;s around 7 PM\u2026 I wonder what I&#8217;ve been doing all day? <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63116572_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> And the stopper bolt on the left OEM clip-on handlebar snapped off,<br \/>\nso I thought, &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;ll get to that next time!&#8221;<br \/>\nBut then I thought, &#8220;When is next time?!&#8221;<br \/>\nSo I figured, why not just do it? The main key connector is under the tank, so I pulled off the seat cowl,<br \/>\ntook out the tank, drilled the hole, and removed it \u2605 <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63116572_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> Ahh! It&#8217;s clean and I&#8217;m happy \u2605<br \/>\nI wanted to finish and cure the intake manifold modification for synchronization, but oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &nbsp; &nbsp; the fork is leaking like crazy, so we&#8217;re replacing the seals \u2605 If it doesn&#8217;t look good, we&#8217;ll swap out the inner tubes too, yeah? I&#8217;ll touch it up while I&#8217;m at it. That&#8217;s what I said! But then I polished it with this Scour-Lite Flap, and it came out super clean \u2605 I got so into it I just kept going and going. So we&#8217;re out of spray, and I don&#8217;t have a ride, and driving a car sounds like a pain. I figured having someone else drive the car is the best way to go, and right then Yaru-ze George! showed up. I had him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[93,55],"class_list":["post-71870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gr77c","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71870","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=71870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}