Oil For Forks for XRV 750

**mauro** · #1 9 Apr 2005

Hello all,
i am in India and been on the road now for about 10 month .... i had to change the front forks Oil, here i have been recomended to use Automatic Trasmission Oil, in the technical manual of the Honda Africa Twin XRV 750, it does not specify any particular oil but it just says Oil for FORKS, anyone has any idea if the Automatic trasmission Oil is ok or not , and if not which oil is appropriate ??
Thanks for the usual feed back
mauro

**madmarco** · #2 9 Apr 2005

Heyho

I did the same, and it worked quite smooth. I think the original oil should be a SAE 10 or 15... but it will work for you.

Marco
http://www.schnueriger.net

**mauro** · #3 10 Apr 2005

Grazie Marco,
fa sempre piacere sapere che altri hanno fatto altrettanto ..un grazie ancora
Mauro

Quote:

Originally posted by madmarco:
Heyho

I did the same, and it worked quite smooth. I think the original oil should be a SAE 10 or 15... but it will work for you.

Marco
http://www.schnueriger.net

**mmaarten** · #4 11 Apr 2005

Hi guy,s

You should use shockbreaker oil.
If you can not find it, I would recoment NOT to change it. Better to have old oil then wrong oil.
Any other kind of oil can damage the seals and valves in the forks.

Since cars usually don,t have shocks, you can refill... it can be hard to find.

Maarten

------------------
- www.maartensworld.com -
- Some photo's -

**mauro** · #5 11 Apr 2005

Thanks for the info but i did already changed the oil, but since i will be in Thailand around June, and i dont think i will drive more than 1500 km till then, i will change the oil once there ...
cheers and happy travels ..
mauro

Quote:

Originally posted by mmaarten:
Hi guy,s

You should use shockbreaker oil.
If you can not find it, I would recoment NOT to change it. Better to have old oil then wrong oil.
Any other kind of oil can damage the seals and valves in the forks.

Since cars usually don,t have shocks, you can refill... it can be hard to find.

Maarten