fork oil level
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:44 pm
with all the talk of fork oil level, can I ask what does compressed
mean? does it mean compressed all the way or compressed with my weight
on the bike, etc?
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Yeah, they're supposed to be compressed but......Maybe three years ago, during a tech session, me and another klrista put in new seals. Then with the forks EXTENDED we measured the level for the new oil using the spray bottle top and straw method. At some future time I learned that we should have measured with the forks compressed. Since nothing was leaking we put off measuring again and pouring our the excess oil. Well....years have past. Neither of us have had any trouble as a result of this goof up and the bikes don't ride harshly. Guess there's a lot of tolerance as to fork oil level. Bogdan, who - of course - doesn't recommend you do it this way> With the fork in the configuration to check the oil the caps will be off and > the springs will be out. The forks can be fully extended or compress just by > sliding them in or out by hand. Both my manuals (base and supplement) call for > the oil level to be check fully compressed. There was some discussion on this > and I didn't catch the outcome.
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