fork seal brand question
- Jeff.Saunders
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I hope Z1 sells original Kawasaki seals, otherwise you're going to get very experienced at the job quickly. Last aftermarket seals I used didn't last a week.
We have almost ZERO problems with aftermarket seals. I'm running the same set of aftermarket seals in my Z1 for 5 years. The key is installing them carefully.
Ron, you seem to be of the opinion OEM parts are always the best out there. In some areas the OEM parts are better, however in most areas the OEM and aftermarket parts have no appreciable difference - often because the VERY same parts in a different bag - in these cases buying OEM is a total waste of money. In other cases the aftermarket parts are far better then OEM.
Bear in mind many of the OEM parts are truly NOS - new, old stock - they have been sitting around for as long as 15-20 years. We've bought genuine airbox hoses that come in already hard from sitting on a shelf for years, rusty cam bearings, mismanufactured pistons (one that looked fine except there were no oil holes in the piston).
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As far as OEM parts. Does anyone think that parts such as gaskets, seals, bulbs and a whole crapper load of other parts aren't outsourced. I know, they are made to OEM specifications for that manufacturer. But the same suppliers sell them to other sources too, and it's that same quality. I've been in enough manufacturing jobs to see that.
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Very true..
When you inspect many of the 'genuine' OEM parts the makers marks are on them.
ART, DID, EK, Mikuni, NGK, ND, Tokico, ARJ and many more.
There are different grades within aftermarket parts. Turn signals are a good example. You'll see brands like 'Trick' being sold alongside 'K&S' - the quality difference is massive. The K&S brand are far superior.
Even with the OEM parts the quality varies over the years. The original brake and clutch levers on the Z1 had brass inserts in the pivot point. The same part number being sold today does not. Aluminum master cylinder caps for the Z1 used to be aluminum, but are now plastic, even thought the part number is the same.
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