So I am going to remove the forks, empty the oil and try trannie fluid, to the right quantity.

I am getting front wheel 'hop' when hard cornering on rough stuff that I am told is 'pogo sticking' and that it's caused by too much oil. Trouble is, what could be right for a bike may be totally different when triked. Many guys are telling me to _use_ trannie oil.īut yeah there could be too much oil. I would say it's fork oil as these guys are not ripoff merchants and it was a costly 'part' in the rebuild. They def did not use trannie fluid.as I said it's a grey-black liquid more viscous than trannie fluid. I was trying NOT to take it all down, henced my questions. Why would you take it all the way down and not change the oil while you were there? If you didn't put the oil in the last time you have no idea what's in there, maybe the last guy overfilled, or maybe they used tranny fluid instead of fork oil, who knows.ĭo it the way it's supposed to be done and be done with it. Then dump it all out and refill with the recommended amount of fresh oil, or minus out a couple of CC's if you want the ride softer. 4-5 times, just to take out solme oil or put some back, would start to. given that the trike now feels better by removing oil I am not desperate to change it, but it's useful for future referenceĭoing it once or maybe twice would not bother me. does anyone have any idea what the oil is they put in there during servicing the forks? how do you get oil from the left fork? (I am wondering if you just remove the suspension bits?.I did not try that because I was fighting with my jack as well and did not think of it) So my questions (and I may know the answer to the first): The smell was not familiar not ATF, not engine oil. The oil I extracted was a grey-black fairly opaque liquid that was, IMO, thicker than W10/ATF. I also reckon there is less headshake (trike remember) There is a flange that prevents that.Ī ride test with many bends and corners and swerving on the straights left me feeling that less oil had made the ride far nicer and secure-feeling on my hands over sharp ruts and bumps, without affecting handling. In the right fork I could get a tube down the fork and extract oil with a syringe. So today I finally got around to removing some oil. I will try again instead of burying my question at the end of my thread.

2003 vtx 1800 fork oil viscosity chart