The top seal on Katie’s Canyon Spectral is mashed.  The 5th part down from the top in the pic below – a thin, soft metal washer with a pale blue rubber seal around the edge.  The seal is is bits and the metal is all out of shape – i dont know whether it was assembled wrong at some time, or if the “impact protection unit” getting knocked in crashes caused it to fail.

Whatever, Canyon have a complete parts breakdown for the frame but it just lists the headset as a single part.  The bearings are still running smooth (although there was  fair bit of dirt on top of the top one as the seals not working very well….

Any ideas?  i don’t really want to replace the whole headset .

nobody?  Do i just suck it up and buy a whole new top half of the headset (or better, buy one that actually has effective seals?)