YZ 250 leaky for seals (2011)

yz250shortshiftinhippie
I clean the tubes throughly after every ride, clean the seals with a seal mate, grease the dust covers and after every ride my left fork seal is dripping that much oil it gets on my front tyre. What is the go with this. Is my seal just haggard or am I doing something wrong. Whenever it's tied down I use a seal saver. Note - they are still oem, nothing has been touched on them in roughly 200 hours, I have heard YZ's are pretty notorious for it, but how can I prevent this from continuously happening???
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HackMan162 5/20/2017 7:09am
5/20/2017 7:09am
Wrong section.

But at 200 hours, your forks are about 160 hours overdue for servicing. New seals, bushings, and anything else that is worn is needed.
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Hondas4Life3 5/20/2017 8:10am
5/20/2017 8:10am Edited Date/Time 5/20/2017 8:11am
yz250shortshiftinhippie wrote:
I clean the tubes throughly after every ride, clean the seals with a seal mate, grease the dust covers and after every ride my left fork...
I clean the tubes throughly after every ride, clean the seals with a seal mate, grease the dust covers and after every ride my left fork seal is dripping that much oil it gets on my front tyre. What is the go with this. Is my seal just haggard or am I doing something wrong. Whenever it's tied down I use a seal saver. Note - they are still oem, nothing has been touched on them in roughly 200 hours, I have heard YZ's are pretty notorious for it, but how can I prevent this from continuously happening???
You should be replacing the oil every 20 hrs seals every 40. The oil inside of them breaks down just like engine oil.
yz250shortshiftinhippie 5/20/2017 2:58pm
5/20/2017 2:58pm
HackMan162 wrote:
Wrong section.

But at 200 hours, your forks are about 160 hours overdue for servicing. New seals, bushings, and anything else that is worn is needed.
Yeah I realised that after I posted it.
Cheers mate
yz250shortshiftinhippie 5/20/2017 2:59pm
5/20/2017 2:59pm
yz250shortshiftinhippie wrote:
I clean the tubes throughly after every ride, clean the seals with a seal mate, grease the dust covers and after every ride my left fork...
I clean the tubes throughly after every ride, clean the seals with a seal mate, grease the dust covers and after every ride my left fork seal is dripping that much oil it gets on my front tyre. What is the go with this. Is my seal just haggard or am I doing something wrong. Whenever it's tied down I use a seal saver. Note - they are still oem, nothing has been touched on them in roughly 200 hours, I have heard YZ's are pretty notorious for it, but how can I prevent this from continuously happening???
Hondas4Life3 wrote:
You should be replacing the oil every 20 hrs seals every 40. The oil inside of them breaks down just like engine oil.
Hahaha well that makes sense. I'll have to learn to do the oil. Until then I'll just keep riding while the weather is perfect, the still feel good, but surely it's going to lose all oil at some point.
Thanks for you response mate

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