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Yep...it's happened. You have blown the seals in the shock. It's gonna be expensive, too. I replaced mine last spring. You have a few options, the first of which is to try to rebuild yourself. I believe there is a link to this self-abuse in http://www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html#suspension somewhere. Or you can have it rebuilt by someone who knows what to do by finding a link in the bigcee FAQ I listed or someplace like http://www.multisurfacemotorcycling.com/products/klrprod.htm. Or you can do like I did and get a new Progressive 420 shock ( http://www.progressivesuspension.com/420.html ) at http://www.mawonline.com/, for instance, for about $350. You could also spend a pile bunch more cash for a slightly better shock, if you feel so inclined. (I don't have those links handy, but there's plenty info out there.) My buy vs. rebuild decision was made simple by the fact that the cheapest rebuild I could find was going to cost over $300 and I could buy new for another fifty bucks. Good luck. Lamar A14 -----Original Message----- From: will gilmore To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:20:23 -0000 Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Oil leak from shock absorber assembly? Looking for some helpful hints concerning a small oil leak I just noticed coming from lever arm or some other part of the shock absorder assembly. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Shock for KLR at this site...don't know anything about it, just have the addy. http://www.f1engineering.com/suspension2.html --- ATO137528@... wrote:

> Yep...it's happened. You have blown the seals in > the shock. It's gonna be expensive, too. I > replaced mine last spring. You have a few options, > the first of which is to try to rebuild yourself. I > believe there is a link to this self-abuse in > http://www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html#suspension > somewhere. Or you can have it rebuilt by someone > who knows what to do by finding a link in the bigcee > FAQ I listed or someplace like >

http://www.multisurfacemotorcycling.com/products/klrprod.htm.

> Or you can do like I did and get a new Progressive > 420 shock ( > http://www.progressivesuspension.com/420.html ) at > http://www.mawonline.com/, for instance, for about > $350. You could also spend a pile bunch more cash > for a slightly better shock, if you feel so > inclined. (I don't have those links handy, but > there's plenty info out there.) > > My buy vs. rebuild decision was made simple by the > fact that the cheapest rebuild I could find was > going to cost over $300 and I could buy new for > another fifty bucks. > > Good luck. > > Lamar > A14 > > -----Original Message----- > From: will gilmore > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:20:23 -0000 > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Oil leak from shock absorber > assembly? > > Looking for some helpful hints concerning a small > oil leak I just > noticed coming from lever arm or some other part of > the shock absorder > assembly. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > Archive Quicksearch at: >

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The only reply I got was that I've blown the seal on the shock absorber - does this mean I should only replace the shock and nothing else? Also, since it's only losing a drop every couple of days, how much time do you think there is before it can't be ridden? will gilmore wrote:Looking for some helpful hints concerning a small oil leak I just noticed coming from lever arm or some other part of the shock absorder assembly. Is this common and if so what's the fix? i.e. is there one or two seals I should check first? I'm assuming the leak is coming from the assembly because I can't see oil on anything else. Small drops are almost directly on the bolts of the lever arm. Thanks for any help you can give me. Will Archive Quicksearch at: http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

technically, you can ride the thing until it bececomes a giant pogo stick the more you ride it, the more oil will come out, the less damping you'll get, hence the pogo stick. you will also risk scratching the chrome rod in the middle. if that gets scratched and not changed/repolished , you risk straching the next seal and blowing the seal , again, back to square one.dangerous too. you get to feel like garry mccoy for a while my advice, get a stiffer spring , and sent it for a rebuild. upt good high quality shock oil too while they're in there. and you'll have a winner. pump the nitrogen inside. and walla make sure the rebuild has a warranty. clint --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, WILLAM GILMORE wrote:

> The only reply I got was that I've blown the seal on the shock

absorber - does this mean I should only replace the shock and nothing else? Also, since it's only losing a drop every couple of days, how much time do you think there is before it can't be ridden?

> > will gilmore wrote:Looking for some helpful

hints concerning a small oil leak I just

> noticed coming from lever arm or some other part of the shock

absorder

> assembly. Is this common and if so what's the fix? i.e. is there

one

> or two seals I should check first? > I'm assuming the leak is coming from the assembly because I can't

see

> oil on anything else. Small drops are almost directly on the bolts

of

> the lever arm. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > Will > > > > > Archive Quicksearch at:

http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html

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Damit! I'm thinkin that's what it is too. (Blown seals cuz of lack of protection) Hurry and install a shield to protect your shock to keep it alive as long as possible. After I saw the first pile of mud on mine, I pooped a shield out of the $3 mudflap kit at Autozone. Here I am after lots of 2Up ridin and over 30,000 miles and a good stock shock. Good luck, Rod,,,,Sheesh, the wife's Sherpa had a shield already, and I have to poop one for the Mighty KLR, I don't get it. --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, WILLAM GILMORE wrote:

> The only reply I got was that I've blown the seal on the shock

absorber - does this mean I should only replace the shock and nothing else? Also, since it's only losing a drop every couple of days, how much time do you think there is before it can't be ridden?

> > will gilmore wrote:Looking for some helpful

hints concerning a small oil leak I just

> noticed coming from lever arm or some other part of the shock

absorder

> assembly. Is this common and if so what's the fix? i.e. is there

one

> or two seals I should check first? > I'm assuming the leak is coming from the assembly because I can't

see

> oil on anything else. Small drops are almost directly on the bolts

of

> the lever arm. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > Will > > > > > Archive Quicksearch at:

http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html

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