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Title: Forks: oil capacity
Post by: conrad on July 10, 2003, 06:50:47 AM
Hello,

I'm going to replace the oil seals of my GS forks. I've been loosing forks oil because the seals and I would like to replace oil too. Anybody knows the forks oil capacity for a GS500'90?
TIA
Title: Forks: oil capacity
Post by: scratch on July 10, 2003, 01:44:14 PM
377ml
Title: Re: Forks: oil capacity
Post by: pancho42 on July 10, 2003, 02:25:09 PM
Quote from: conradHello,

I'm going to replace the oil seals of my GS forks. I've been loosing forks oil because the seals and I would like to replace oil too. Anybody knows the forks oil capacity for a GS500'90?
TIA

I own a 93 N model ,  for this   377 cc each of sae 10
Title: Forks: oil capacity
Post by: JasonB on July 10, 2003, 02:41:58 PM
Might wanna get progressive springs while your at it and change the oil to 15
Title: Re: Forks: oil capacity
Post by: conrad on July 15, 2003, 10:34:13 AM
There is a french web page with a lot of info about GS500 (http://www.gs500e.fr.st/)
There I found that: for 89-91' model the capacity is 382 ml. For 92-03' it's 377 ml.
Thanks a lot for your answers.
;)