I am in the middle of putting a chrome front end on my wife's Deluxe. It's an 05.......not really a problem just something odd.

I am draining the fluid out of the fork legs and the oil in one side is clearly fresh hydraulic oil while the other side is black and stinky. I am thinking maybe they replaced a fork seal or something and one side has clean fluid and the other is old.

Will fork oil turn black and start to stink when it's old? I can't say that I honestly know.

Thanks.

 

mine did

 

when i lowered mine it stunk, had only 4000 miles on her at the time

 

Mine didn't at 20K and 40K.

 

Alright...got everything back together....simple enough to change. The dealer gave me the wrong seals though.....just a smidge too small. No amount of finessing could get them over the fork tubes.

I reused the old ones, which I HATE doing, but everything seems to be working ok. Took it for a short ride and all is fine. I'll clean it up and post some before and after pictures tomorrow. Best $200 bucks I've spent on appearance mods in a long time.

 

a full chrome front end really makes it pop. my fork oil came out black and stinky too.

 

Mine was the same way when I did the chrome front end kit. I have ready in multiple places that the left side (brake side) generally gets very dark due to the heat of the brakes. From what I have been told this is normal.