Fork leg removal (1965 B40F)

[Phil C]

The seal holder has been rubbing on the fork shroud or "trousers".
Very common to find. Usually the metal of the shroud gets bent during removal or gets extra paint if painted or powder coated. Fit a new seal holder and the same thing will happen!
When refitting the forks, after the top nuts have been fitted and the wheel has been fitted undo the bottom yoke bolts and the headstock locking nut and bounce the forks up and down a few times to centralise them. You may still get a bit of catching but as long as the fork movement is not restricted I wouldn't worry too much about it.

When you say the headstock locking nut, do you mean the top yoke pinch bolt? Or the steering stem top nut?

[AdrianS]

Usually if you don't tighten the top nuts up tight, bottom pinch bolts slightly undone, and possibly loosen the wheel cap bolts slightly, then bounce the suspension a few times to locate everything before carefully tightening all bolts up. I have had to loosen the top yoke bolt in the past to get everything to align if everything isn't free.