[Silly Little Cars] Fork Seals

Mike Wyatt mwyatt54 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 14:41:47 PDT 2012


My local person, Diane @ White Bear 425-251-5738 said most bearing
suppliers can cross reference the seals--if you get them the number. If
thefront rides hard (like mine is) it may just need oil--#46 hydraulic
oil--it's not leaking.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:18 PM, <
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> From: Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com>
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> Nice ride! Do you know where it came from? I've only seen that paint job in
> San Francisco, but I'm guessing its some sort of stock pattern. Here's my
> girlfriend's, for example:
>
> http://sillylittlecars.com/?p=126
>
> And attachments work fine on the list by the way.
>
> For my stereo, I put an amp (not a head unit) behind the panel on the
> "passenger" side that's just in front of the rear wheel. But alas I think
> that area might be full of AC components for you. But you could always put
> it in the trunk? Then I routed the audio cable with the 1/8" headphone jack
> and a power switch up to the dash. I put two 6" speakers under the seat,
> facing my feet, and in the center I put a 10" subwoofer. Sounds
> ridiculously good.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Steve <sclark1 at flash.net> wrote:
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> > I received an email from MME, Robert Cross, about the same time you sent
> > your email Mike.  I was able to order two seal kit, so problem solved
> > (until the next one comes up).  Thanks to everyone who responded to my
> > original inquiry.  ****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > I don?t know if this will distribute, but I attached a picture of my
> > little buggy.  Just got new rims and wider tires on back, and had the
> > windows tinted (gotta have it for the murderous south Texas sun and to
> help
> > the little GO-4 ac unit along!).  Also had the exhaust from a Honda RC 51
> > put on to replace the rusted stock exhaust can . . . has a nice throaty
> hum
> > now.  Next project is the radio.  There is just no place to put one.
>  It?s
> > blue tooth enabled with a built in microphone so it has to either go on
> the
> > dash or the small space on the right hand side next to the seat.  The
> roof
> > just seems too flimsy for a mount there.****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > Steve****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > *From:* silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com [mailto:
> > silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com] *On Behalf Of *Mike
> > Wyatt
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:14 PM
> > *To:* silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com
> > *Subject:* [Silly Little Cars] Parts at MME. Whoo Hoo****
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> > ** **
> >
> > This is the parts man at mme and they are rebuilding their inventory as
> > the factory has been closed for 18 months. rcross at source-mme.com<
> rcross at source-mme.com>
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> > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:48:39 -0700
> > From: Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com>
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> > Wow.
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> > I'd try  support at source-mme.com <sales at source-mme.com>, webmaster@,
> etc.,
> > also.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Steve <sclark1 at flash.net> wrote:
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> > > I tried MME.  I get an undeliverable message when I try to email them.
> .
> > > .  and this is using the email address on their web site.****
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> > > *From:* silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com [mailto:
> > > silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com] *On Behalf Of *
> > > Rahsaan
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> > > You can get the rebuild kit from The Supplier in Sacramento...I forget
> > the
> > > name at the moment...this place does all the orders for the bay
> > > area..Municipal MAintanence...its called MME I think..here it is
> > > http://www.source-mme.com/. They are the US source and order from the
> > > company in Canada.
> > > Raz
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> > > I'd like to know also.****
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> > > Has anyone re-built their GO-4 front shocks?  Mine are probably blown
> as
> > > there is a lot of old oil and gunk at the top of the struts.   Just
> > > wondering where to get the seal kit for the oil struts.
> > >
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> > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:27:43 -0400
> > From: "R. Eric Kahn" <kubla at fuse.net>
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> > your best bet is to take them to a good custom bike shop and hope they
> > can buy the seals after measuring them, they were custom built for
> > westward by Showa (spelling bad)
> >
> > On 6/25/2012 1:45 PM,
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> > > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:06:55 -0500
> > > From: "Steve"<sclark1 at flash.net>
> > > To:<silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com>
> > > Subject: [Silly Little Cars] 2004 GO-4 Front End
> > > Message-ID:<009e01cd52f4$ed42ac80$c7c80580$@net>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > >
> > > Has anyone re-built their GO-4 front shocks?  Mine are probably blown
> as
> > > there is a lot of old oil and gunk at the top of the struts.   Just
> > > wondering where to get the seal kit for the oil struts.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > S.C.
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> > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:01:12 -0500
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> > Thanks for that little tidbit.  I figured it was not going to be easy to
> > get
> > these parts since the front fork is more motorcycle rather than Hyundai /
> > Kia.  Emailed Showa just for the hell of it.  Don't really expect an
> answer
> > though.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com
> > [mailto:silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > R.
> > Eric Kahn
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> >
> > your best bet is to take them to a good custom bike shop and hope they
> can
> > buy the seals after measuring them, they were custom built for westward
> by
> > Showa (spelling bad)
> >
> > On 6/25/2012 1:45 PM,
> > silly_little_cars-request at lists.sillylittlecars.com wrote:
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> > > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:06:55 -0500
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> > > To:<silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com>
> > > Subject: [Silly Little Cars] 2004 GO-4 Front End
> > > Message-ID:<009e01cd52f4$ed42ac80$c7c80580$@net>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> > > Has anyone re-built their GO-4 front shocks?  Mine are probably blown
> as
> > > there is a lot of old oil and gunk at the top of the struts.   Just
> > > wondering where to get the seal kit for the oil struts.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > S.C.
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