Anyone here that has pulled their 1100s forks apart?

[SpikeC]

 What a coincidence! I just noticed oil on the bottom of my right fork leg!

[scooterd145]

AND... my right one is blown for the 2nd time :-( Anyone use diferent seals with good luck (other than from Ohlins). They take several weeks to get and spendy at about $80 IIRC.

[MonsterRider]

http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?127896-Fork-Seals-04-Factory

A walk through I found. Not exactly the same fork but you get the general idea.

[SpikeC]

 I saw an add or something for a thing called a sealmate. My first thought was, oh goody, a "Dickey the Stick", a piece of plastic that was supposed to fix leaking fork seals. The idea was that the thin piece of plastic would clean dirt out from the seal allowing it to seal again. The thing was cheap so I gave it a try against my better judgement. The weird thing is it it seems to have worked!

[manwithgun]

I saw an add or something for a thing called a sealmate. My first thought was, oh goody, a "Dickey the Stick", a piece of plastic that was supposed to fix leaking fork seals. The idea was that the thin piece of plastic would clean dirt out from the seal allowing it to seal again. The thing was cheap so I gave it a try against my better judgement. The weird thing is it it seems to have worked!

More times than not, it seems to be a piece of debris caught in the oil seal rather than the seal being "blown".  An old MX trick is to pry down the dust seal (visible spring loaded rubber seal) and use either a cut tear-off, 35mm film strip, or a business card and work it in between the stanchion and the oil seal. Rotate one revolution,  Voila!  You either fixed it or you didn't.