Triumph tiger 1050 wounded fork lowers

[Ben Hur]

I have already posted he same question on a previous haunt of many of the members here...indeed I have not posted in either forum for quite some time, mainly because of other commitments reducing my bike related time but I would like to repost the same question here to ask for advice from the ones amongst you with experience

"Hi there my friends triumph tiger 1050 has developed some scratches on the lower forks which are repeatedly damaging his seals. I know there are some technical gurus on here so I promised him I would ask for advice on how to fill out or remove the scratches and avoid buying expensive new fork components

Thanks for any advice you can offer"




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[Lutin]

I have already posted he same question on a previous haunt of many of the members here...indeed I have not posted in either forum for quite some time, mainly because of other commitments reducing my bike related time but I would like to repost the same question here to ask for advice from the ones amongst you with experience

"Hi there my friends triumph tiger 1050 has developed some scratches on the lower forks which are repeatedly damaging his seals. I know there are some technical gurus on here so I promised him I would ask for advice on how to fill out or remove the scratches and avoid buying expensive new fork components

Thanks for any advice you can offer"

I'm presuming that these are Upside Down forks?

If the fine finish on the forks has been damaged to the extent that it is wrecking the seals, then you have no choice but to get the forks repaired. This can be either new fork legs (expensive, I would have thought) or get the existing fork legs re-finished (not quite so expensive).

The re-finishing of the forks would probably take the form of grinding out the scratches, then re-chroming and finally grinding/polishing to the correct size.

 

[hotbulb]

I've no experience of this (aren't the Transalp fork gaiters a good idea?), but I have read of people filling the scratches with epoxy (Araldite or similar) after a thorough degreasing and rubbing down carefully with very fine Wet'n'dry. And using new seals, or at the least cleaning any muck out of the old ones using the old 35mm film trick, has got to be helpful.
But I'm sure someone will have actually used an effective cure for this problem and will be along shortly (either here or at the "other" place)
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Lutin gives the real answer above

 

[Ben Hur]

Gentlemen...once again a goid reason for the internet....scratches treated and coming up nicely thank you guys