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monkeyboy90

Discussion Starter · Jul 13, 2004

I'm curious to hear what some other people use in their skareb for the air piston in regards to oil. I know the manual suggest motor oil. I've also heard that rock shox redrum works well. However, I'm slow to use motor oil, because I know they quite have a seal swelling quality. Anyway, so I was wondering if anyone else has tried this, and how often do you do this? Also, what weight of oil do you use?

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Chris2fur

· #2 · Jul 13, 2004

I use the same oil I use for the semi-bath.

monkeyboy90 said:
I'm curious to hear what some other people use in their skareb for the air piston in regards to oil. I know the manual suggest motor oil. I've also heard that rock shox redrum works well. However, I'm slow to use motor oil, because I know they quite have a seal swelling quality. Anyway, so I was wondering if anyone else has tried this, and how often do you do this? Also, what weight of oil do you use?

For the semi-bath they call for 5w-40 fully synthetic motor oil (I picked up some Amzoil) and for the top of the air piston, they call for 40wt motor oil.... Seems dumb to me to differentiate. I just use the synthetic on top of the air piston as well.

-Chris
http://www.enduroforkseals.com/

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monkeyboy90

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 13, 2004

Have you noticed any problems with swelling of the piston or anything like that. I know alot of oils come with seal swellers that might have a bad affect, have you noticed this? Any significant changes in performance?

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Chris2fur

· #4 · Jul 13, 2004

No. No problems.

monkeyboy90 said:
Have you noticed any problems with swelling of the piston or anything like that. I know alot of oils come with seal swellers that might have a bad affect, have you noticed this? Any significant changes in performance?

I thought it was weird a couple of years ago when I first saw the Manitou instructions for putting motor oil on top of the air pistons for the Black forks. They must have some reason for choosing motor oil instead of a heavy fork oil. I just took it a step further and figured that if standard motor oil is good, synthetic is probably better....

-Chris

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· #5 · Jul 13, 2004

I have always used 5-50 motor oil on my Mars and haven't had any problems with it. In 3 years I've never had to add air except after I deliberately let it out for maintenance.

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monkeyboy90

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jul 14, 2004

You raise a good point, possibly they want that seal swelling property that many automotive properties. You raise a good point. Thanks for all the responses though, they are much appreciated.

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