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If you need to take your fork seals out - you need this

 
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Corkboy
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:45 am    Post subject: If you need to take your fork seals out - you need this Reply with quote

After spending far too much time and curses destroying old fork seals to get them out, I bought one of these.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-37439-Universal-O-Ring-Puller/dp/B000PJCBVM

It is cheap as chips (€11 in Ireland).

It gets the seals out in about two seconds flat.

I cannot stress enough how much easier this makes the job.
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John Clauss
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can't find them on Amazon here in the U.S. bummer, this is my next job.
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michaelcurrin
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got a very similiar looking seal puller that's been in my tool box for years, very handy.

I don't remember for sure where it came from, probably the local auto parts store.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was thinking that I could organise to send them over, if you can't source them in the US.

But it would be easier, and cheaper to make one up. They are not that complex. Just a cut piece of metal, riveted to a handle.

I am in the workshop again on Tuesday, I'll take a few pictures and measurements and post them up here.

Anyone with a jigsaw and some flat plate could make one up easily enough. Then put on a handle and you're set.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John Clauss wrote:
Can't find them on Amazon here in the U.S. bummer, this is my next job.


I'm sure most auto parts stores stock them... Easily found on Amazon....

This one (Prime) http://smile.amazon.com/OTC-4508-Professional-Style-Puller/dp/B000IHJZD8/ref=pd_sim_sbs_263_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1H7W2X5VJ74ET92X5B7Z

or this one... http://smile.amazon.com/Pit-Posse-Universal-Motorcycle-Bearing/dp/B004MB3KO6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437443267&sr=8-1&keywords=universal+seal+puller

There is at least one other one there...
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NAPA sells it.
http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/CatalogItemDetail.aspx/Puller-Seal/_/R-OTC4508_0476950009
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was wondering through Sears this evening and low and behold in the automotive tools section they have one. $8.99 regular price, number is
9 47645. Craftsman, Made in the U.S.A. and no need to pay for shipping!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems so that they are readily available, and cheap, in the US

If you need, or want, to make one - here is a sketch of the head. This could be made up out of flat plate, and adapted to suit any handle you had.
I have given one measurement in millimetres. It's 85 mm wide.



https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E2rlOafcCf0/VbOJRkJalyI/AAAAAAAABDk/PEJxA9619QQ/h120/img003.jpg
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