Originally Posted by
scrublover
Get your stuff oil-wise from a moto shop. Way cheaper, and you'll have plenty for many, many oil changes down the road.
When swapping the spring, you don't need to remove the lowers at all. Have the fork sitting flat (so no oil leaks out top or bottom) pull old spring out, pop new in, do up the lower bolt and topcap. Good to go with minimal oil loss. As you've noted, the coil side only uses a tiny amount.
Funny U say that Scrub...I was just sitting here contemplating the meaning of life and I got to wondering why I would lose any oil at all in the spring side b/c you lay it flat and squirt it in there in the end anyways. Also...I got to thinking about my last PUSH Fox rebuild and I remember them saying that they use Torco fork oil...which is readily available at a Moto-shop.
I also thought about using the 7.5wt in the damper...with a stiffer spring...it may just require a little heavier fluid to compensate.
I honestly won't know this for sure until I have a chance to test the firm spring with the extreme open and closed damper settings.
Needless to say though...I'm pretty excited to get in installed.