{"id":75349,"date":"2010-12-09T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=75349"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:51","slug":"gsf1200-deco-mainte-front-maintenance-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20101209\/everyday-events\/gsf1200-deco-mainte-front-maintenance-4","title":{"rendered":"GSF1200 Deco-mainte &#038; Front maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3788265998\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>Well then<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61983760_0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Going with the usual ladle bearing this time \u2605<br \/>\nI prefer it and use a ball bearing, so a tapered roller works fine too<br \/>\nReplacing the upper and lower seals with new ones\u2014the GSF1200 has a plastic cap for the upper seal, so swapping it for a seal makes it harder for water to get in<br \/>\nwhich I think is good.<br \/>\nWhen the seal gets too tight, I level it with a lip and whetstone, removing only the minimum needed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61983760_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Went in perfectly \u2605 Checking with a surface plate or mirror like at the dentist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61983760_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cream puff \u2605<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61983760_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The broken brace\u2014the two front M8 bolts wouldn&#8217;t loosen and were bent; one came off but one snapped<br \/>\nand it took nearly two hours of wrestling to remove it.<br \/>\nWhy did it bend in the first place?<br \/>\nOh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well then Going with the usual ladle bearing this time \u2605 I prefer it and use a ball bearing, so a tapered roller works fine too Replacing the upper and lower seals with new ones\u2014the GSF1200 has a plastic cap for the upper seal, so swapping it for a seal makes it harder for water to get in which I think is good. When the seal gets too tight, I level it with a lip and whetstone, removing only the minimum needed. Went in perfectly \u2605 Checking with a surface plate or mirror like at the dentist. Cream puff \u2605 The broken brace\u2014the two front M8 bolts wouldn&#8217;t loosen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[156,55],"class_list":["post-75349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gsf","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349","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=75349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}