Everything all at once...

First my fork seals start puking oil and then my right blinker wont come on! SH*T!

Riding through town a couple hours ago and hit the switch to turn on my right blinker, nothing! Doesn't come on and stay solid, doesn't blink. Left blinker works just fine, as it always has. Before I go tearing my whole wiring system up, I was curious if it could be the switch or if there is something that someone else has run into before?

If nobody knows I will jump into it tomorrow morning...

 

Check your bulbs first, make sure they are good. The signal switch is easy to take apart and clean do that next. Did you take any wiring apart to change the fork seals?

 

I haven't done the fork seals yet, that will be in the next week or so in the mean time the bikes going to sit...

Just went out and checked the bulbs. The rear is good, the front requires I take apart my headlight to unplug and test so it will wait until tomorrow. If it is the switch, do you think its just dirty or is it likely that something is really wrong?

 

If 'Puking" means "Quite alot" ... the Forks may be Overfilled.

Open the Drains.
Collect the Fork Fluid.
Measure how much was in each Tube.

Refill the Forks with fresh Fork Oil after carefully measuring-out the quantity needed for your Bike.

(( 278cc's ~ 9.4oz's ))

 

Its not much actually. Its definitely not overfilled. There is little to no resistance when I stand the bike up off of its kick stand it drops a good two or three inches. If I ride into the next town over and back (20 miles total) there is oil down the fork leg, up the shaft and sitting on top of the dust seal. This is my first bike that doesn't have upside down forks (I come from the 1990+ dirt bike world.)

I have a shop manual for it too so when I get the parts, Ill tear into it.

 

1981 ...

That was a good year for the Los Angles Dodgers.
If the Fork Springs you got are Originals; they're cooked.

Donate the old springs to a starving sculptor.

 

They only have 11k miles on them and they are bad?

 

11k miles AND 29 YEARS OLD.

check a bad ground wire. besides checking the bulb. my right side didn't work at all either. the ground wire to the rear signal was broke from the terminal connector. so there was no ground connection at the rear signal.

 

Tore into the switch, and came to find....

A solder broke loose on the blinker switch. Easy fix! Good to know.

I am fixing it in a second after i clean the part and back in business.

 

To put things in perspective....would you want to screw an 80 yr. old virgin?
Catchin my drift? :roll:
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

I think I would pass on the 80 yr. old virgin. lol

How bad is the damage on a set of fork springs? $200?

 

No.
You can get Progressive Suspension Fork Springs for around 90-Bucks.

http://www.progressivesuspension.com/productsearch.aspx

 

check with chacal too, he has a good price on Progressive's front springs.

GOOD IDEA; I was going to suggest that even with worn out seals, if you get that much sag you're going to need springs too.

Highly recommended by the way; compared directly to a set of nearly new stock springs, the performance difference is noticeable. They work much better than the stock springs.

 

UPDATE:

I fixed the blinker switch and got it back on the bike. Up next is to get my seals and fork oil ordered and springs if its within budget (however much is allowed to me by the wife on top of what I get for my fairing on ebay)

I really would like to do progressives all around rather than just the front.. The whole bike seems so soft to me after my last bike (which was a Honda CR250 with suspension that was adjusted for a 250 pound person by a local suspension shop before I got it). I loved how stiff it was and it made for great wheelies up and down the road I lived on =].

 

I have the same model/year bike and found the exact same thing. Looked like a cold joint from the factory.