{"id":84649,"date":"2006-06-09T16:43:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84649"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:59","slug":"take-a-look-at-the-steering-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20060609\/everyday-events\/take-a-look-at-the-steering-column","title":{"rendered":"Take a Look at the Steering Column!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_37317061_6.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Once again, a used GSF1200 (as usual), and right off the bat, the fork oil is leaking<br \/>\nand the steering is completely stiff! That won&#8217;t do, so we got right to work on a full disassembly and overhaul!<br \/>\nSure enough, it&#8217;s all rusty. Surprisingly, the steering stem area rusts pretty easily! The upper bearing seal<br \/>\nis just plastic on the GSF, so water gets in even more easily! If you swap this out for the one from a Bandit or something like that,<br \/>\nwater won&#8217;t get in as easily.<br \/>\nNow you can feel that smooth, responsive handling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Once again, a used GSF1200 (as usual), and right off the bat, the fork oil is leaking and the steering is completely stiff! That won&#8217;t do, so we got right to work on a full disassembly and overhaul! Sure enough, it&#8217;s all rusty. Surprisingly, the steering stem area rusts pretty easily! The upper bearing seal is just plastic on the GSF, so water gets in even more easily! If you swap this out for the one from a Bandit or something like that, water won&#8217;t get in as easily. Now you can feel that smooth, responsive handling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84648,"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-84649","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\/84649","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=84649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}