atf / fork fluid.
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:55 pm
#ygrps-yiv-2114873998 p {margin:0;} My Transalps called for ATF. I had a couple of bottles of Honda trans fluid leftover from a Civic I'd owned & it worked just fine in the bike forks. =) eddie
----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] jeff@... [b]To: [/b]klrsisfiddy@... [b]Cc: [/b]DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] 1/3/2010 2:14:58 PM [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [DSN_KLR650] Tools OK. So I'm not smoking crack.I take the tubes off and clean everything out with carb cleaner. You wouldn't believe the sludge that builds up in there. After I'm done I fill it with synthetic ATF instead of fork oil (ATF is the same stuff, and the synth resists breakdown and sludging longer). The M/C lube companies repackage standard ATF as "fork oil" and charge a fortune for it. Heck, in some of the shop manuals for my older bikes it actually specified ATF. -Jeff Khoury