fork oil level / replacing- reasonable quantity of oil to use?

[zoran]

old timing man, when will you remember there are 2 generations sv. :)


Zoran Vujasinovic
Twin Works Factory
775-786-4881
www.twfracing.com 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernest Montague" <afm199 at earthlink.net>
To: "Suzuki SV650 Mailing List" <sv650 at micapeak.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: fork oil level / replacing- reasonable quantity of oil to use?


> 135 mm with spring in and fork collapsed.
> 
> work the forks up and down to get the bubbles out and oil into the 
> damper
> 
> 
> On Feb 21, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
>> Per my previous thread, I'm replacing the fork oil.  Poured the old
>> oil in a graduated cylinder and got about 300ml (minus a little
>> clinging to the parts) out each leg.  Shop manual says fork oil
>> capacity is 491ml, so either these forks leak a lot, previous owner
>> put a lot less oil in or capacity != amount to put in?  Basically is
>> 300ml reasonable for forks with emulators?  Or should I hack together
>> a fork oil level and use the shop manual spec?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Aaron Turner
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>>
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