fork seal question

[junior varsity]

well.... depends on you to some extent.  You can search on fork oil weights and see lots.  Its hard to compare manufacturer X's numbering to manufacturer Y's, though.

[Novelo]

When I did mine I went with a light medium oil, I'll probably never need to be overly concerned with the loss of viscosity with working the forks & hotter temps.

[tshearman]

Hey folks! Sorry to reanimate a topic clearly resting so peacefully.

I'm trying to rebuild my forks and am having a beast of a time get this retaining clip out. Any pointers?

Edit: These are the Marzocchi forks from a 99 Ducati Monster 750

Thanks!
ts

[DarkMonster620]

Hey folks! Sorry to reanimate a topic clearly reading so peacefully.

I'm trying to rebuild my forks and am having a beast of a time get this retaining clip out. Any pointers?

Edit: These are the Marzocchi forks from a 99 Ducati Monster 750

Thanks!
ts

needle nose pliers if they're "sutck" . . . shouldn't be sho hard to take them off

[tshearman]

Hopefully I'm trying to pull the right thing out of there. On these forks the retaining clip is round and an approximately (5/6th or so) circle with a squarish cross section. No abrupt bends, essentially a smooth partial circle.

[tshearman]

Also, this is the case on both forks. Logic then suggests I'm doing something wrong...

Steps so far:
Removed from bike
Removed  top bolt
Removed 1/2 ring retainers (by compressing the spring)
Removed spring, spring sleeve and slider

Now I have the fork tube with dust seal removed and am delicately trying to remove the retaining clip. Unfortunately I may have added a bit to the topology of the outer fork tube... Expletive.

[tshearman]

Update: Finally got them off. It involved (as recommended) a pair of needle nose pliers, partial destroying the existing fork seal in order to get a good grip on them, grabbing them as hard as possible and yanking them out. It was by no means easy.

On a related note, I bought the wrong sized fork seals (from Ebay... ugh). Does anyone know a reliable place to buy fork & dust seals? RaceTech was mentioned.

Edit: 1999 Ducati Monster 750

Thanks!
ts