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Aug 11, 2009 | 07:40 PM

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Scooter68

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Blah, another thing to add to my list of changeing fluids for next year, since I'm at about 7k on the bike. Good post, thanks.

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:10 PM

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street_glider

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OK there are a million fork oil threads on this site - anyone got a good reference thread worth reading/saving? I want to learn about improving performance and longevity.

I'm at 8K miles right now, so I think this would be a good fall/winter project.

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:12 PM

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brettnbama

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gross!!!!!!!!

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:17 PM

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psc

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Nice reminder...I'm due!

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:22 PM

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Hammer107

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Quote:

Originally Posted by street_glider

It's about a 10 minute job.....not exactly a project.....ok maybe 30 minutes on a Street Glide due to having to access the top of the fork.

If you have a mityvac....then you are back to 10 minutes.

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:29 PM

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DPete

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Fork oil change thread

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/3734005-post23.html

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:31 PM

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Notgrownup

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I changed mine at 30k WOW!!! it was nasty and i put SE heavy oil and it totally changed the handling of the bike....

Aug 11, 2009 | 08:34 PM

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NavyPT

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I have to agree that 50K seems to be a long interval to wait to change the fluids up front.

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Aug 11, 2009 | 09:01 PM

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Whiskers

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Hey Scrooge...where the heck were you with this message a couple years ago when my bike bottomed and dented my fender?

Good message though.

Aug 11, 2009 | 09:10 PM

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street_glider

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hammer107

It's about a 10 minute job.....not exactly a project.....ok maybe 30 minutes on a Street Glide due to having to access the top of the fork.

If you have a mityvac....then you are back to 10 minutes.

I think your right based on what I'm finding out. I saw some early threads that talked about removing forks. Yikes - no thanks. Maybe next weekend then! I found that old iClick post DPete showed, and iClick is always spot on in his write ups.

Hope this full thread helps someone - https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...il-change.html

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