Right fork done today. Everything came apart OK, no problems.
Here are the old and dirty pieces laid out:
That partial bumper in the bottom row of parts; there's only about 1/3rd of it left. The the rest of it was all shredded up to pieces about the size of sawdust and was all over the inside of the fork and suspended in the oil. This same bumper was broken up on the other side as well but was in larger pieces and not completely shredded.
The permanent parts cleaned up along with the replacement components:
Those three rings go into a groove together and need to be compressed while slid into place. Like piston rings, the gaps should be turned 120 degrees apart for a better potential seal. I didn't notice their orientation on the other side but on this side the gaps were all very close together. I don't know if they just ended up that way over time or if the forks were rebuilt incorrectly in the past.
And finally a relatively crappy pix, but it does show that the second leg is buttoned up and ready to mount.
Hopefully I can get the front end buttoned up tomorrow. There's a procedure to getting things set up correctly:
Put the top triple on w/ the nut loosely in place.
Slide the fork tubes into the bottom triple and up to the bottom of the top triple. Turn the nuts through the top triple into the tops of the fork tubes.
Insert the axle into the fork legs and make sure it goes in and rotates w/o binding. Then continue to rotate the axle as you slowly slide the fork legs up and down to make sure there is no binding.
If the axle turns freely and the legs slide as they should, tighten up the pinch bolts on the bottom triple and repeat rotating the axle and sliding the fork legs up and down. If there's no binding, torque the pinch bolts.
Secure the ends of the fork gaiters w/ the clamps and attach the fork brace/fender mount. Check for binding again.
Remove the top triple and install the turn signal stalks and headlight ears with rubber gaskets. Included in this is the task of carefully fishing the wire for the turn signal into the headlight ear housing, around the fork tube, and down through the stalk.
Drop in the fork springs, put the nuts back into the top of the springs and then push down while turning to tighten. Torque the three nuts on the top triple.
Pour the correct amount of fork oil into each tube, screw on and tighten the tube caps.