When I took apart my forks on my 81 Honda CB 750 K. I noticed a ring thin in design. And had some weird shapes to it.,,Do I need to replace these when reinstalling Fork assm. ?
If you mean the retaining ring above the seals, you can clean and reuse it unless terribly rusted. I bent new ones from welding wire on one rebuild. It needs to go into the groove in three places and extend over the seal outer edge in three places.