MC22 Fork Oil & Seal Replacement

[fatboy]

An interesting link I stumbled upon, when looking for some info on different fork oils:

http://www.peterverdone.com/archive/file...20oils.pdf


In short (copy paste from the original forum I found it in ):

"no two fork oil manufacturers use the same scale of oil weights to viscosity, and even within a single manufacturer it can vary greatly.

For instance: Castrol Synthetic 10W is 42 centistokes (cSt) at 40 degrees C (most appropriate temperature for comparison purposes). And "Castrol Fork Oil 10W" measures only 15 cSt, so the Synthetic is almost 3 times thicker. And the Synthetic 5W is thicker than the regular 10W at 28 cSt.

The point is, you need to know what the cSt of the oil you want to use is, not just the manufacturer's claimed "weight rating".

[fatboy]

Ok, here's a better version done by the same guy with lots of other bike-related info there:

http://www.peterverdone.com/archive/lowspeed.htm

[paparoach]

wow, that was intense

[Harry]

lol, I think you are all unneccesarily complicating the simple CBR250 forks...