TL1000S OEM steering damper oil seal

You mean front forks?

If you are talking about fork seals, I would recommend a complete rebuild instead of just replacing the seals on a 17 year old bike. Most likely what you are seeing is the dust cover, not the seal itself. I see in your sig you already have a Bitubo, so a Race Tech fork rebuild would complete your suspension transformation.
Just my .02

No.. I mean steering damper..

tiller4me said:

If you are talking about fork seals, I would recommend a complete rebuild instead of just replacing the seals on a 17 year old bike. Most likely what you are seeing is the dust cover, not the seal itself. I see in your sig you already have a Bitubo, so a Race Tech fork rebuild would complete your suspension transformation.
Just my .02

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Thanks for the advise! Do you have a link at hand for the RaceTech forks? Ive been thinking about either a rebuild or Busa conversion, but i think my wallet (wife) wont let me do the Busa-thing..

I have heard that standard oil seals in the stearing damper pop very easily if the handle bars are turned fast and sprays oil all over your tank, you have to get high presure seals to be safe.

To add/correct to above, I didn't mean the original seals fitted to the damper, I meant the standard type of replacement seals brought of ebay

Here is where I got mine:

http://racetech.com/ProductSearch/2/Suzuki/TL1000S/1997-2001

Springs and a revalve was some of the best money spent on my S

Jonstorp said:

No.. I mean steering damper..

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I would steer clear from the Ebay stuff in this instance. Any reputable bearing place should be able to match you up with what you need. Just specify "No China Crap".

The seal is an odd size, the dimensions are written on it. Its a standard hydraulic seal so I would think a hydraulics shop would be the place to see.

You wont find the seal at any bike shop, engineering supplier or even the OEMs resalers (KYB I believe).

If you can get the dimensions I could be able to help source them, I really don't want to disassemble mine again.

http://www.tlplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45619
Found my info here...

I have an as new damper.
Pm me if you are interested.
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I'm almost certain the shaft is not 10mm. I'm sure someone can confirm this without even looking at theirs
Also pretty sure the outside diameter of the seal is not 20mm.

The thickness I don't think is too important as the seal retainer is a screw in not a circlip so 7,8,9 or 10 should be ok


But I'm not 100% on this as I just realised you're talking about an S damper not an R.