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Bob,
I've been following this thread and had an idea that I thought I'd throw out there.
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You could add an oil seal to the top and bottom Triple Tree plates by welding on a piece of tubing with an ID equal to the OD of the seal you would use and turn and polish the OD of the neck piece equal to the ID of the seal. The picture is a little blurry, sorry.
Looks like this would seal up the whole neck bearing area.
Never tried this. Just a thought.
I did not. actually never gave it a thought....just saying you wanted to...would you need 2 internal seals ,stem bolt to neck id? otherwise filling entire area with grease seems wasteful?
maybe use bronze/ nylon/ teflon/etc. shouldered bushings...or shouldered spacers? to keep from steel to steel interference.
or plastic /bronze flat washers that fit over the pivot bushings to take up the side clearance.
I was just looking at a few designs and not a lot of them do not use bushings. (some do)
1 I seen has no bushings but does have a grease fitting on each rocker at the pivot point.
I am kind of torn between what I want to do. I don't mind putting in bronze bushings but if they are not needed I would rather not. I want to keep it as simple as I can and still have a reliable front end.
I need to do some more research before I move foward on that
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