Fork seal leaking

[X-Ray]

Keep some pressure on it while you are turning it out. There is still some small spring force on it. 10 pounds of force is enough to keep it from being a surprise when the treads clear the fork tube....

Sorry to add to an older thread, but yes, watch that damn fork cap coming off the tube. When I did my springs a few years ago, I though the weight was right off the front end, but oh no it wasn't. First fork cap I had covered with my weight on the socket pretty well ready to catch the little "pop" as it came off, but with the full weight of the bike on it, it shot off, whistled past my head and put a nice ding in my sheds steel roof. I sat down for a bit after that, thankful it did miss my head, phew!. (hate undoing spring loaded parts  )