front fork seal question

[68Cb77]

I looked through an old thread on here, and I just assumed you had to remove the hex bolt at the bottom of the fork to get that seal out. But will that seal come out fairly easily with the forks still in the bottoms?. ( I have yet to get the chrome fork boots off, so I haven't really looked at the seal, just know it's leaking). Any other bikes I've fixed seals on, I had such a hard time getting them out, I couldn't imagine doing it the the forks still assembled..Also, the forks are out of the bike..