New Fork oil

Hello friends, not posted in a while have I :smile:

This Monday is Bank Holiday here and the Roads are full of nutters in cages so I will take the opportunity to wizz the forks off the 750 FJ and clean out the forks with paraffin then replace the oil with some Castrol 10w :smile:

I'm also going to check my valves out, made up that this engine don't need shims just a case of undoing the locking nut and adjust to the correct gap and hopefully that will do till my next project which is spraying the wheels when I get some pennies put aside :thumbsup:

 

you'll get better results using a real "fork Oil' rather than a motor oil....cuz it's engineered specially for that specific application.


if your bike has high miles those adjusting screws can be well-knackered on the bottoms, making flatspots on the previously-round area and making it difficult to adjust and if you do get it adjusted it won't hold long......so consider replacing the ajusting screws. for just a few quid the adjustments will last much longer.

 

Good evening Mr Squirrelman :wink:

Cheers for the pointers, I've already bought the oil guess I could take it back, having said that, the shop will be closed here over the Holiday period. We shall see how things pan out :smile:

 

I recently did the same job in my other bike and the difference was like night and day. You'll be glad you did it when you're finished.

 

to do the job best u should not simply use the drain screw to remove oil from forks but remove forks from bike and drain them upside down over a pan, and rinse out with solvent 2 or 3 times until rinse liquid is clear.


there's loads of small particles (dirt) lurking at the fork bottom to contaminate fresh oil.....

best to loosen the fork caps while forks are still mounted

 

for anyone interested the amounts of fork oil you need for a 1986 vfr700 interceptor is .........370cc in the left fork and ...........358cc in the right