I have been having Left Hand fork seal problems for way to long.
An authorized Honda motorcycle shop / dealer that shall remain unnamed for now has done the job 3 times.
The work they do will last about a month and then it is leaking again so I decided to do the job myself, I can't do any worse than them.
Before I started the rebuild I looked at the fork tubes and saw some small scratches running vertically where the oil seal & dust seal ride so bought new fork tubes, I also bought the Honda fork rebuild kit.
Here is where my question comes into play: I got to the part where I removed the fork center bolts to drain the oil, to my surprise both bolts were the same length, 8 x 27. From all that I understand the bolt in the Left Hand Fork should be shorter, 8 x 18, at this point I stopped and decided to post this question: Could the longer bolt in the Left Hand Fork be creating my seal leak. Like I say I stopped there, Honda put a shorter bolt in the Left Hand Fork for a reason and the dealer didn't use the correct bolt.