Fork oiling?

[Tsiklonaut]

How should i do it on my R1100GS? Remove the upper nipples, remove front wheel and downer nipples and let the old oil out... BUT, how i put the new oil in it? And how much there goes? Manual says 470ml, is it all the way up in fork so i know when is it full or should i measure the amount of oil separately and put it in?

Altough manual recommends 5 or 10W, i considered testing Castrol 15W, has anyone else tried?

Thaks'n'advance, Margus

 

[Rob Farmer]

It's such an easy job to do, just take the fork legs out completely drain everything and take the opportunity to give the forks a good clean while they're apart...far easier than you imagine.

 

[Tsiklonaut]

OK. I'll try to remove them in the weekend. I imagine they're a bit harder to remove due telelever?

 

[Gecko]

see attached

 

[Gecko]

and this

 

[Tsiklonaut]

Thanks for those, Gecko! Made me more informed.

But looking into my Haynes, they don't mention anything about ball joint bolts removing, forks should be removable alone w/o touching the ball joint?

 

[Deleted account W]

Four Coils???

 

[Steptoe]

Four Coils???

Can i have one, i need a coil, got a misfire on my L/H fork

 

[Tsiklonaut]

Removed them. No need to touch the ball bearing to telelever arm, just remove the 4 screws on bridge and two from the handlebars plus some little ones (brake calipers, mudguard).

I put 15W into forks. One dust seal was kinda cracky, but looked solid though, should i replace it?

Will test the 15W "feel" tomorrow if got some time - took the final drive off too for inspection and lubing, bike needs some more time to work on - today was full day in garage makin' love with GS

Cheers, Margus@someday will take GS into pieces and put back on as LEGO by heart and with closed eyes

 

[Rob Farmer]

See I said it was easy bit scary how little holds them together actually?

The tubes are empty so the fork oil only lubricates the moving parts.