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Semmessporty

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2007 883L. Bought new 3 year ago. 6 thousand miles, only ride weekends. My factory manual says fork oil change 20,000 miles. Will take 8-10 years to reach that. Should I wait to 20 grand or change every few years. Scoot is garage kept and well taken of.:worthy
 
Semmessporty said:
2007 883L. Bought new 3 year ago. 6 thousand miles, only ride weekends. My factory manual says fork oil change 20,000 miles. Will take 8-10 years to reach that. Should I wait to 20 grand or change every few years. Scoot is garage kept and well taken of.:worthy
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For all you folks lucky enough NOT to have a cartridge in the left side, I would just changing out the fluid EVERY year with all the rest of the stuff you do. With straight springs in both sides, changing the fluid is a snap! Well, baggers are a bit more involved, but NOT like the goofy cartridge mess!!

TQ
 
Change fork oil? You bet. It was the single best thing I did to improve my Dynas handling.
I went about it a little oddly though. I had the clunck develop in less than a 1000 miles. Installed upgrade washer and to the new torque specs. Got rid of that, but I still had the heavy dipping on hard braking and over light bumps and ripples you could feel in the bars a sort of vibration feeling.
Well, my right side fork tube started to pick up road dirt and dust on the tube. I would wipe it away every day after riding. I decided it was time to install a new seal. Actually I bought two. I set the bike on the jack and took the forks apart. Dumped out the original Showa factory oil that I could see was pretty weird looking. I installed new seals and filled the legs to exact factory measurement specs. Installed spacer and springs and reassembled front end. I never did measure out what the oil quantity was as it came with the bike. I wish I had, because what a difference. Either the quantity was incorrect, the weight of that fish oil or something, because I could tell right off that the front end was greatly improved over what I had been having to deal with. Since the seals could not do it, the springs are the same, I have to say the Type E fluid and the correct quantity made a big, big difference. I never did figure the quantity, but it is a lot. I bought 4 qts of the fork oil and ended up with only a 1/2 quart left. They take a lot of oil. Using the measuring spec does the trick though. :)
 
Hoople said:
Only 1 side is cartridge? How strange is that..

So as long as you have the long spring in each leg, your not "cartridge" style correct? tks
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Here is how goofy this is:

FRONT FORK-LEFT (FAIRING MODELS) - 2003 Harley Davidson Touring Ultra Classic Electra Glide FLHTCUI

FRONT FORK-RIGHT - 2003 Harley Davidson Touring Ultra Classic Electra Glide FLHTCUI


Fairing bikes only in the '02-'05 series. Here is how to get rid of 'em:

Cartridge Fork Elimination. - Harley Davidson Community

TQ
 
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