larrydr
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@saddlebum ..what you think about using synthetic fork in the 83 Venture front forks ..
I did a repair on my forks on my Venture and I did use synthetic fork oil on refill ...
I noticed a leak coming from bottom of the fork , the bike sat for 3 months and has not be on the road .
The drained the oil to repair the leak , and it was black , black ,black .
I then flushed fork 3 times with little improvement on color , would you use synthetic oil or non synthetic fork oil
And is there a compatibility problem with oil and seals
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Sometimes it is best to look at the situation use what we would call common sense ....20 years ago my dads uncle was following a loaded pickup loaded with plywood when one of the plywood sheets lifted off the loaded truck and it went and came through his windshield cutting off his head ..
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We only have one chance at it to make our load is secure . 3 years ago my wife, son and grand son were in a car heading down the trans Canada highway , when a pickup truck pulling a trailer loaded with metal pulled onto the highway just a head of them . The trailer hit a bump coming of the shoulder and 2 foot by 2 foot piece of metal came of the trailer and bounced across the lane into a truck then came back into the car my family was in ( no one was hurt ) ..Fortunately the metal hit the front of the car and deflected itself under the car ..It wrecked the transmission and sub frame and made holes in the floor of the car 2 inches from the brake pedal and continued to make 16 by 10 inch in the rear floor where my son and grand son were sitting .. .M.P.I insurance said to me that the metal not going into the care was rare ...
This happened about 9 pm at night . I got a call on my cell call from my wife , she was crying ..I asked where are the RCMP Police ..She said that the police had not arrived yet ..I called 911 and asked for help , got into my truck and started to drive to the location ...1 1/2 hours away ...When I got there the rear of the driver side of the car was on the highway and front was on the shoulder .. I got my wife , son and grand son into the truck and waited ..Made a call to CAA as the RCMP had not been there ...Put the hazard flashers on , called for the police and i was told that they we coming , I said then that I was leaving with my family in my truck ...I made 4 calls to find a tow truck to come out before I found one that would come out ..I still wonder why the RCMP were not there by that time ...
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