Fork Seals on '96 R1100RT

I had the rear rubber line fail on my 2000 RT in my garage shortly after I got it last year. Had my son holding down the brake pedal while I was torquing down the rear wheel lug nuts. I've got stainless Speiglers on the bike now!

I discovered a leaking fork seal on my '03 R1150RT and remembered reading this thread. Over the weekend I replaced the seal from the top. I removed the left side tupperware and this gave me much more room to work, I didn't struggle with it nearly as much as Chris Harris did in his video. The extra 10 minutes to remove and replace the tupperware was probably less than I would have spent trying to work around it.

Another thing I did that I think helped: I opened the vent valve in the top of the fork tube before pulling the tube out of the slider, and tightened it back down after re-inserting the tube. No struggling against air pressure.