Fork oil change - silly question?

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Hi all,

Just got round to taking the forks off my DRZ400 S, well the right one first, and was reading the Clymer manual afterwards as you do.

It said (as fair as I could tell reading it last night) to remove the spring then drain the oil out, fill with oil and bleed them by pumping the rod up and down. Is this necessary? Last time I did fork oil (some years ago on my VFR400), I just emptied the oil, filled it back up (with the springs in I think) and put it all back together...no bleeding.

Which method is best and why?

Also, I was going to put some Motul 'medium' oil in it. The oil that came out was normal looking, then started coming out a bit white :confused: water or just knackered oil?

Any suggestions/advise?

Cheers
 
Fork oil change.

I have a genuine drz400e service manual and in that it says
1 Place the fork vertically wihtout the spring
2 Pour fork oil into the tube 720 ml
3 Move the inner tube & inner rod slowly several times
4 Hold the fork vertical & adjust oil level using special tool I think thay mean a depth gauge.
In the notes it sayes again remove fork spring and compress inner tube fully.
I hope that helps.
 
Yep, that is similar to what my VFR400 manual says when I found it.
Can't remember doing it like that but it was a few years ago!

Spring is out and leg fully compressed ready to pour the oil in. For the 'S' I found it was 710ml.

Thanks for the help, hopefully new oil will sort the soggy front end!
 


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