I got myself a set of progressive fork springs for the bike. Read and read and read some more until I had it all planned out in my head. 90min later I am done and tomorrow in the daylight I will give it a test ride.

Now as the title suggests, here is my idea for catching the old oil out of the forks. A 20oz soda bottle. As seen in the picts I cut the neck off and made a opening down the side of the bottle just big enough to clear the pinch nut. I loosened the old screws and taped the bottle on to the forks. Leaving most of the neck prevented any forceful squirts from going all over.

Another idea for adding oil. I overfilled the tube and used a marinade injector to suck out the excess oil. Mine was close to the inside diameter so the needle was close to center and I measured and marked the tube. Easy!!

 

That seemed to work well . Photos do alot better job for Me in visualizing the technique You used to remove fork oil. That way My water bottle won't sit in a landfill for 2,000,000,000,000 years after only one use. Next time I'll give this a shot when I change fork oil..........WVleo

 

I remove the top caps, then the drain screw, and let the oil run out into a pan. No pumping and mess.
The oil drains out in 2 minutes.
I measure the amount that comes out and refill with the same amount, about 235cc's I think it was.

The ride improves a LOT with 15 weight fork oil with the stock springs, stock oil is 5 weight, the screaming eagle oil is 10 weight I think.

With the progressive springs, I went to 10 weight oil, and 5 weight would likely be fine.

Brett

 

I pumped mine and flushed it with a little of the new belray 10w.
Everyone is always going WOW over the change and I can now agree with that!
Next is a pair of air shocks.

 

i cant find a drain screw on my forks. am i missing something or do i have to remove the forks and turn em upside down?

 

In this pict, the bump is where the drain screw is. The bump is facing the bottle just below the top lip of the bottle.

 

apparently they do not have them on the 48's, my buddy has a nightster and his does have them wtf????