PaulMoto6
Member
Hey all, I'm in the process of swapping my forks for R1 forks; just got my stock forks off, and I was curious to see what the oil looked like, so I emptied them out. What's weird is, in one fork, I was only able to empty out 12 us oz, and in the other one, managed to empty almost 14 oz. I made sure to exercise the forks a few times between pour outs....I did this 2-3 times until only drips were coming out. I'm a little alarmed because the manual says to use 18.23 us oz when doing an oil change. Curious if anyone has thoughts, or has experienced something similar? For what it's worth, I do not know if the fork oil has ever been changed on my bike. It's an '07 and I'm the 3rd owner. The fork caps looked pristine though, and the oil that came out was very dark and there were very small bits of metal (which I assume is normal from watching all the dave moss 'fork oil change' vids).