atf / fork fluid.

[transalp 1]

#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