I finally got around to changing my fork oil. I bought my 09 with about 7,500 miles with no history from PO's since I got it from a dealer. Have no idea when the last time the oil's been changed, if ever, and I've been waiting to do any supsension adjustments until I had fresh oil.

So I start recording all my initial settings before opening up my compression and rebound and I discover both of them have more clicks total than the manual states. My compression valve has a range 17 click instead of the 14 per the manual and rebound has 15 instead of stock 11 so I'm guessing they're not stock. Here's a couple of pics. Not sure what stock adjusters should look like.

I've been wondering if I had aftermarket springs since the bike has never felt undersprung to me even though I'm 240 or so and have 6 lines showing on my preload. I took a break before disassembling the forks or draining any oil. Anybody know how to identify stock versus aftermarket components or if it will adjust the height of oil I need?

Oil level should stay the same regardless of the internals, however i would be working from the actual oil level in the fork rather than a set measured amount, that will keep the air gap the same.

Neil

* Last updated by: Neilp on 3/17/2013 @ 7:18 PM *

After disassembly and draining figured out my forks all bone stock, so no worries. Filled up to the 88mm level the FSM spec'd and good to go.