Getting fork seals replaced

I have some oil marks on my right hand fork, so at least it's away from the brakes. Does anyone have an idea of what it costs to get your fork dust and oil seals replaced? I was hoping to get an idea before ringing some garages.

Prenderb

I bought fork seals once. Me and a mechanically minded mate fitted them. The fork seals cost about a tenner for both, and took about 4 or so hours to fit. I'd estimate (only estimate, mind!) that it should take a bike workshop about an hour to an hour and a half to get this job done. Whatever labour is going at these days (is it 60 yoyo?) so I'd say budget in or around €90-€100. Estimate!!!

Thanks for the reply. If it was roughly about that I might get it done by a garage. I reckon it would cost me twenty or 30 quid for the seals ( i have to get dust ones too).

Did you have a seal driver for installing the seals?

BigCon

What bike are you riding baz?
I did my seals on my Virago a few weeks ago - about 4 hours taking my time and a school run in between...
I just used a wide punch to carefully drive in the seals (tapping all round gently)...

bushy...

If you don't have seal drivers and your a bit nervous about using a punch , cut say a 5mm section out of the old seal,put it on top of the new seal , you can then press down with 2 short pieces of decent wood.If you press it evenly sometimes they go in very easily.( idea of this is its pushing on the outer part of the seal)

Garibaldi

The one and only time I had to have the seals done was about three years ago, and it cost ~€120.

Horatio

I just had my seals done a couple of weeks ago and it cost me 90 yoyos. If you're doing them yourself be sure to check your forks before putting in the new seals. Part of the reason my seals went is pitting on the forks from stone chips, this can cause gouging in the seals and ultimately wear out the seals.
The machanic who did mine had to sand down the forks pretty hard to get them smooth again.

Thanks for all the replies. I think i'll go ahead and try it myself. Just saw your reply there horatio - where did you get them done for 90 euro? I have a bros Bigcon.

I just popped the dust seals from both forks and carefully ran the very tip of a cocktail stick around the inner oil seal area. I removed a fair bit of gunk that was between the fork tube and the seal.

When i put the dust seals back on and pumped the forks hard I noticed that my problem is virtually gone - there is still a tiny amount of oil, just a slight smear but i think that may be residual.

What are the chances of this lasting I wonder..

bushy...

..forgot if your fork tubes are badly pitted and replacements are scarce , E&G Manly in the midlands can repair them (with proper hard chrome and grind them afterwards) , maybe Chrome Ireland (01)4664999 could do the same