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A mate of mine came up with a good idea of purchasing fox seal kits and replacement oil together to save on packaging and share the fluid. I stupidly allowed my mate to sort it all out and do the necessary checks on the fox website, but when I went to check the fluid levels I needed for my 2010 140 RL Floats I discovered my forks should have 10cwt oil rather than the 7.5cwt my mate has bought. I'm tempted to just chuck the 7.5cwt rather than purchasing some 10cwt. What do you guys think? Thoughts from people that have serviced the forks themselves would be most appreciated -cheers!
Use olive oil, its all the same.
[i]Theoretically[/i] it should just make the damping less severe/effective. As in, if you ran 3 clicks from fully open on the rebound, you might have to run 5 clicks with the lighter fluid. If there is no adjustment for the compression damping, you may blow through the travel a little more easily on lighter fluid also.
Me, I'm all in for faffing with fork oil weights to get the feel I want. My Maguras are currently running 40W motor oil as the bath and in the air chamber as I couldn't find any 40W suspension oil.
I don't think you use the oil for anything other than lubrication. The damping cartridges, where the damping oil is housed, are usually sealed and only serviceable by a technician?
Rebound (red dial on top of forks?) they're open bath damper so oil in R/H leg does lubrication and damping work, 7.5wt should be fine for lubrication and damping as long as your not over about 14 stone with riding kit depending on how you run your rebound.
I run 7.5 Motul Factoryline Fully sythetic in my 2010 RL O/B 150's and am about 13.5 stone works really well.
I thought fox replaced its 7.5wt oil with the 10wt oil making them basically the ssme thing ad my forks used to be 7.5wt but now mojo say use the 10wt. Not all manufacturers oil weights are identical so maybe fox are using a different brand these days hence the switch to 10wt.
Loco, unfortunately I'm a big lad at 16 stone...........