https://www.ronayers.com/oemparts/a/kaw/56e72def87a8660e60bbe0dd/front-fork
This is 44065 and 44065A. That would be bushing sleeve inner and outer numbers respectively. Though it's a dirt bike, I'm pointing out the 2 outer and inner bushings that would wear and move the fork fore and aft and give that kind of number.
https://www.ronayers.com/oemparts/a/kaw/56e720c587a8660e60bbd58c/front-fork
But this front fork shows no bushing, no slider insert at the fork leg. If say you can't replace the bushings to get the slop out, it's new unit complete, or new part assembly that comes in the 'sub-line out' showing the boxed in unit complete to get the sleeve, would be buying the 44008/A to shore up the slop.
Notice in the owner's/shop manuals 'service intervals' page. Shows everything to change but the fork oil. So basically it's saying it's just like the rear shock oil and can't change that out, so it more means, 'when fork seal leaks on that inspection interval,' it's saying, wink-wink, no leak, no need to change oil until the seal leaks.
Then the manual has a section as if buying a replacement part and these are the tools needed, how to measure the oil, etc. So the what might think is excessive play, the seal would surely load that one direction on the brakes, lip seal would take less than .020" movement to move the seal away from the tube, the fork would leak somehow with that much play, the scoring of the tube would pop up on the extension of the fork, but I'll assume there is no leak, no line scoring, no change of less slop of the fork leg if you moved the leg 90° from where it sits, meaning, with the axle thru both tubes, but that one leg spun to 90° then measure the fore and aft, and if the numbers read the same?
Because there are no sleeve ID or OD measurements in the book, or any for wear of parts, so as to change out a spec number breaking out of the set ID/OD windows of wear. So can two forks windup with the same clearance numbers, neither leaks, neither is line scored at the tubes. It might be normal?
My front end is not down or I'd fore and aft my legs just to see if they match yours. So as for me, I'll change seals as a set [when one only leaks] and that's when I'll change the fork oil. So for ease of mind:
1. Are the forks both measured out the same as far as fore and aft?
2. Is this one fork tube scored at the tube when fully extended?
3. Does the fork leak at all?
So the answers should be:
1. Both measure the same, yes. Then the odds of one fork only having this slop would say normal to me if both read the same.
2. No. Then where is the rub two hands together, which hand remained cold, or not worn equally at both rub marks?
3. No. Then the slop is not that loose as to make it leak under braking.
Make sense this way with the variables added of leak and scored parts?
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