It is Sunday. Any place that sells fork oil is closed. I installed some of those cheap NOS Suzuki K10 forks on my vespa and while doing so one of them tipped over and most of the oil spilled out.
Does anyone have experience with using motor oil instead? I know the manual for my 71 Honda CL125 says to use 10W30 in the forks. 60's Suzuki forks are just as primitive as the Honda ones so it should be fine right?
I've heard of using ATF, motor oil shouldn't be too different.
I just found a scan of a K10 manual online. It calls for 10W30 too.
some obscure memory from a cpl a few decades ago made me think 30 wt but 10W30 be moar better
I've used ATF in olde skool forks with good results.
alot of guys run atf and say it's close to 7wt shock oil
ditchdigger wrote: I installed some of those cheap NOS Suzuki K10 forks on my vespa
Is there a stockpile of NOS Suzuki forks out there someplace?
2.0dohc wrote: alot of guys run atf and say it's close to 7wt shock oil
15-20 W
stuart in mn wrote:ditchdigger wrote: I installed some of those cheap NOS Suzuki K10 forks on my vespaIs there a stockpile of NOS Suzuki forks out there someplace?
The guy has about a thousand 
Not sure how many K10's were made but it seems crazy that he would have that many complete NOS fork sets laying around.
One of the guys on moped army was negotiating with him to buy them all thinking he had a few dozen. They agreed on $13 per unit and when the total came out to over 13K he about passed out.
My Honda CB-1 called for ATF in the manual.
ditchdigger wrote: The guy has about a thousand. Not sure how many K10's were made but it seems crazy that he would have that many complete NOS fork sets laying around.
That is bizarre...why would there be so many spare forks sitting around for a 45 year old bike that wasn't terribly popular in the first place? That must be the entire world's supply of forks for those things.
ATF.
You'll need to log in to post.
