June 24, 200917 yr Hi everyone,could anyone please tell me how much oil to put in my 05 pro forks .I try'd to go on mechanical talk but it says it's now closed.cheers.
June 25, 200917 yr Hi everyone,could anyone please tell me how much oil to put in my 05 pro forks .I try'd to go on mechanical talk but it says it's now closed.cheers. Hi, slack. Your 05' should have the steel tube Marzocchi's and you'll want to set those forks by oil level, not volume, as the cartridges do not fully drain like the GasGas cartridges. The steel tube forks have the oil level set at 180mm, spring removed and tube collapsed into the lower leg. The Marzocchi's have a little different damping orifices than the GasGas forks and take a slightly heavier viscosity, 7.5 weight for "normal" damping and if you like them "springy" use 5 weight. You can also tune the damping on the rebound and compression seperately by oil viscosity changes. If you have any bottoming problems (rare on the Marzocchis) you can raise the oil level to, say, 170mm, which will affect fork compression rate in the last 3rd of travel. Jon
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