MentalScientist

Yep, circlip gone.

I am in Portslade, E.Sussex - near Brighton. Can you recommend anybody in this neck of the woods? Slice - I have a Haynes manual which says nothing about removing the fork seals. Have you come across this issue before? Copying the post to the wprkshop area.

Hello All. I need to replace the fork seals on my very nearly finished dt250 so I watched a few videos on YouTube and thought 'piece of cake'. Oh dear, bad mistake. I'm having a mare getting them out. The videos show the guy sliding the inner piece like a slide hammer and they just pop out. My bike doesn't seem to have the same end and the innards just slid out leaving the seals in place! Can anyone recommend a method of removing them? Preferably with no expensive tools. I tried prying them out with a screwdriver which just bent and then tried the same with heating up the fork and still no movement. Any help will be greatly received and thanks in advance....

I need to replace the fork seals on my very nearly finished dt250 so I watched a few videos on YouTube and thought 'piece of cake'. Oh dear, bad mistake. I'm having a mare getting them out. The videos show the guy sliding the inner piece like a slide hammer and they just pop out. My bike doesn't seem to have the same end and the innards just slid out leaving the seals in place! Can anyone recommend a method of removing them? Preferably with no expensive tools. I tried prying them out with a screwdriver which just bent and then tried the same with heating up the fork and still no movement. Any help will be greatly received and thanks in advance....

Thank you Dirty DT. Do you actually have a dirty DT?

I don't know why, but the pics aren't showing!

Hello there, I'm Simon and I started a project bike, a DT250MX around a year ago. I was given the bike for free by a guy who's house I was working on. His wife was fed up with it leaning against the shed for the previous 4 years! I had it covered in my garden for a year before I dismantled it and put it in my loft to keep it dry and to stop the rot. I took it out of the loft about a year ago after I built myself a workshop (out of mainly recycled materials). Firstly I sanded the frame down and re-sprayed it with my friends spray equipment. I found out that I had been given some duff information about the primer when the paint started chipping off whenever a spanner went near the frame! All the hard work was in vain, but I found a local shot-blasting and powder coating company that did the whole frame for just £80 - in hindsight I wish I'd have done that in the first place! I've just been tinkering now - the wheels are on, with new tyres and brakes, new headset bearings and recently a new speedo which I bought on e-bay which doesn't quite match the rev counter (I think it may be from an RD!). I've been cleaning up parts and painting them with hammerite and even de-rusting bolts and washers on the wire wool part of my grinding wheel. I would like to share some of the experience with anyone else who is doing or has done a similiar project to this. Here are a few before and now pics: