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Re: Maintainance questions - long

To: dmeadow@juno.com
Subject: Re: Maintainance questions - long
From: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:20:46 -0500
Motorcycle fork oils are usually quite lightweight.  The heaviest is 30
weight.  If John Twist recommends 50 wt. fork oil wouldn't be heavy enough.

John McEwen






>Try your local motorcycle shop.  They sell a front fork oil that has seal
>swelling and anti-foaming stuff.  Sorry I don't have a brand name.
>
>David Littlefield
>Houston, TX
>
>On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:35:30 -0400 (EDT) "W. R. Gibbons"
><gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu> writes:
>>On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 PLM97@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to catch up on servicing 74 Midget.  The car runs
>>fine and
>>> is in fairly good shape, but I'm not sure what to use on the
>>following areas:
>>
>>> Shocks - I was going to top off if needed - local shop says if it
>>isn't
>>> leaking don't fool with it.  Twist says top them off with 50 weight
>>hydraulic
>>> oil with seal sweller & anti foaming.  (Need brand name to find this
>>one)
>>>  Any experience with this?
>>
>>Enough experience to know that one reason why they may not leak is
>>that
>>they're empty.  Best check them.  I use shock oil from Moss.
>>
>>   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
>>                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
>>                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910
>>
>>



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