TS185 Partses.

I've put EP90 in an engine before, but that was an attempt to make it a
little quieter.

 

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the official MoD service manual for the Can
Am Bombardier says 10W30 mineral oil in the forks. Which is why I
asked about the necessity of fork oil.

I'll check.

 

You and Suzuki both. They're in the Haynes manual, they've got an
exploded diagram of a TC100/TS100 rear wheel showing where they live,
and there are six of them lying on my garage floor, replete with little
Suzuki 'S's. I took some photos of them but they're on the machine at
home.

 

You're talking about the air-cooled 4 stroke 4 from Kawasaki. TOG was
talking about the water cooled 2 stroke triple from Suzuki. YTC.

And anyway, the champagne colour was lovely.

 

ITYM "brown"

 

Yup, 10W30, 200ml of.

Or am I missing a trick? Is only the lower viscosity important as the
forks never warm up?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I think you're right about that one. I had a CanAm yonks back and seem
to recall the necessity for engine oil of some description in the forks.

Probably military necessity at that - you don't want to be farting
around under fire trying to find some 5W fork oil, so any old oil will
do.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
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Apologies in advance for the abysmally poor focus:

http://www.crank.org.uk/img/cush1.jpg
http://www.crank.org.uk/img/cush2.jpg

 

Aye, no doubt. Bikes are reputed to be a logistical headache. Hence:

http://www.drive.cranfield.ac.uk/cfml/dieselmotorbike1.cfm
http://mocca.kaf.fi/teotwawki/dieselbike/specs.html

I so want one of those.

 

Heh. So have I.

 

The Wing uses Pro-Honda Suspension Fluid SS-8 (or equivalent)

What a helpful manual.

Haynes is slightly less helpful.

Chapter 1 says see Ch. 6

Chapter 6 says see Ch. 1

for "recommended" fork oil.

Top stuff.

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"Civilian Version Coming Soon


Testing and Development is underway on a civilian version of the diesel
motorcycle. It is hoped that this machine will be available to the public in
2005. Check back on this web sit for future developments and information."

so you may soon be able to have one... hmmm. wonder if they want a hand
beta-testing it?