• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Setting Fork Oil Level

  • Thread starter Thread starter Anonymous
  • Start date Start date
A

Anonymous

Guest
I know the best way to do this is with a syringe and length of tube. Without spending a fortune for a tool from Race Tech, Progressive or Traxxion Dynamics, where can I find a big syringe like I need for this? I can bodge up a piece of tubing and a level stop, but the syringe is a bit tougher... :)


Mark
 
an oil suction gun (looks similar to a caulking gun , but is a sealed canister that you can pour oil into, or suck oil into)

IF you dont catch my drift, heres a pic from my clymers manual.

OilSuctiongun.jpg


http://groups.msn.com/MattsPage/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=28



poot
 
Any farm store will have lots of big syringes anyone can walk in and buy. I guess the junkies don't usually inject 90cc of heroin. Not more than once, anyway.

I asked my vet for a big syringe once, and he was happy to give me one. (It's the least he could do -- $300 for a dog with a sore throat...)

I've seen glue syringes in craft stores, too.

I've also used a syringe-like thingy I found in the lawnmower section. It's meant to slurp up and measure various amounts of 2-cycle oil for weedwackers and such. It's marked in terms of mixture ratios, but it works fine.
 
I just spent the night in a hospital (i got into a knife fight....the surgeons won) and asked for a large syringe this morning.

got it! :D It holds up to 60 ccs, so I should be able to get the precise measurement of 304cc of fork oil in each fork.

do you think i'd still need to measure the level, if I had a very exact amount of oil put in???


poot
 
I recently went to a large animal supply store and bought a 60cc syringe for $3.00 and a 140cc unit for $6.00. But when I changed my fork oil, I used a bent piece of wire with a mark on it to set the level at 5.5"; coincidently the same tool and mark I used on my Goldwing. It's really not hard to do to set the level this way.
 
I bought a vaccum pump, you know, the kind for one person bleeding of your brakes? It was about $20 at Auto Zone or something, and attached a long coiled hose (like 4 feet of clear tubing) and cut a 1/8" hole in the end of the tube as high as the manual suggests the fluid to be. Then, as you suck up fork oil, it will stop sucking at the correct level when it reaches the hole in the tubing.
 
I measure down with a metal ruler and adjust the oil level until correct pouring only a little bit in at a time.
 
now, when taking the level, i'm supposed to tilt the bike (the forks are still attached) until the forks are completely vertical....

i started to do this, but i didnt want to keep going....could I still get an accurate reading if the level is still the same on either side, with 302 cc of fluid in there???

I used a little metal rod, with the appropriate level marked off, and both are now even, but I never tilted it fully forward. I just dont want to take the front forks off, really. :(


poot
 
Poot Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

now, when taking the level, i'm supposed to tilt the bike (the forks are still attached) until the forks are completely vertical....
Click to expand...

Tilt the bike side to side? I don't understand what you are saying. The bike should be on the centerstand and still for the complete process. I really think the biggest issue is to make sure you have the same level in each leg. A little higher or lower won't adversly affect anything as long as they are the same.
 
Actually, I believe the forks are supposed to be perfectly vertical when the measurement is done. The factory service manual shows this being done with the forks removed from the bike and in a vertical position. But, I agree with Jethro that a couple of millimeters probably won't make a noticeable difference. Getting both forks the same is more important.

Joe
 
:wink:

yeah, the silly clymers manual says to tilt the bike forward while the forks are still attached, until they are vertical..... 8O

they're nuts if they thing im going to do that..... I'm going to put in 302cc for each, and measure to make sure they are both equal.

thanks guys

poot
 
Actually, I believe the forks are supposed to be perfectly vertical when the measurement is done. The factory service manual shows this being done with the forks removed from the bike and in a vertical position.
Click to expand...

Joe is correct. They assume you have the forks off the bike and held vertically.

I got the forks all back together this weekend and all went well. As it turns out, I didn't need the syringe at all...The reason being is that my 1100E forks are air assisted. When the forks are fully collapsed, the oil level specified in the manual is RIGHT AT the air hole. So I simply over-filled and let the extra run out until it stopped. Presto, equal oil levels with no thought on my part.

One thing to note is that if you collapse the fork and then fill it with oil, it will overflow a LOT because it takes a minute to get oil throughout the bottom of the leg. Don't ask me how I know that one... :oops: The way to do it is to extend the forks and put in the recommended amount of oil (or slightly less), then work the tube up and down to circulate oil throughout the damping and anti-dive systems and get all the air out. Then you can compress the fork leg and either let oil run out the air hole until it stops or slowly fill the extra up to the hole. The manual mentions nothing of the overflowing part, BTW...


Mark
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top