I had a couple of XS650 legs lying around that I've been meaning to tear into. I'm hoping to get one good set out of these 2 sets. They were rusty and crusty in the usual places (fork seals, drain screw). The best advice I can give anyone doing this for the first time is to take a chisel to the old fork seals. Hit the fork seal all the way through with the chisel, at an angle, and then pry out the fork seal with a big flat head screw driver. For rusty fork drain screws, clean up around the screw with a brass wire brush. Then spray it with PB Blaster. Let the spray work for a little while, then lightly tap around the screw with a chisel (just enough to unstick any rustyness). At this point, clean up and dry off the screw area, then get the right size phillips head screw driver (the nicest newest one you've got) and put sufficient downward pressure to unscrew the screw.
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