Steering problems

I have a 84 fj600 and the front end seems to want to flop to one side more than the other could this be the neck bearing? I had the bike off the ground with my bike lift and check the neck by pulling forword and backword on the fork tubes and it dont move. So next I thought it my be the front wheel bearings. I havent got to that today will look at it tomarrow. I also found that one of the fork seals went bad so im going to get them also and new fluid.

 

Do yourself a favor and switch from Ball Bearings to a Sealed set of Rollers for your Upper and Lower Steering Bearings.

A Bike like that can use the stability that the Sealed Tapered Rollers will bring to the handling ... and you won't have to worry about them running dry or pitting for a long time.

 

That would probly be a good idea!! Go with a sealed tapperd roller bearing.

 

Typical Tapered bearings (ie: Allballs) are a decent replacement for worn out OEM Yama ball types . Actually Yama made it's own tapered bearing races for the '89 version of your Bike.. doubt they will be cheaper than the Allballs .. but most definitely will fit better as the allballs . sit 2mm too high on virtually any Yamaha..
But just as a point of clarity a healthy set of Ball bearing headset types gives Absolutely the exact same steering performance as the tapered roller types.. the advantage of Tapereds is longer life/less maintenance ..not performance.

 

I will look into getting some. Just got to get the time. Mybe this winter.