Hi islandwahine,

Now that's a job, I didn't even feel like tackling. I think you're well on your way to becoming a " get dirty " savage mechanic  

Very impressed and now it's my turn   because of you just kidding.

Nice job...Dennis

I couldn't think of where else to put the oil from the forks. I was going to measure it, and use it as a guideline for how much oil to put back in when I was done. But Max told me after I had done that, how much oil to put back in.
So now I have to find something else to put it in and bring it to the recyclers.

I couldn't find the 30 weight, so I used 20 weight.
Actually, it steers so much easier now for some reason.
I'm not sure what having new oil and seals would have to do with steering though.
I lucked out with what I ordered from BikeBandit.
It was a spur of the moment thought that I ordered new oil seal springs along with the oil seals and dust seals.
As it turns out, the springs were the culprits. Totally rusted out inside the fork, an causing rust spots on the fork stems, thereby ruining bot the oil and dust seals.

I think I paid about $50.00 at BikeBandit for 2 oilseals, 2 dust rings, and 2 oil seal clips, including shipping (which was only $6). I bought the Fork oil at a local bike shop for $12.00 (1 quart was just enough), and the PVC pipe which was $6 cause they would not let me buy just 2 feet, so I ended up with 10 feet. Left the remainder 8 feet at the store, wouldn't fit in the car. I also had to buy a solvent, used brake cleaner which worked real well, and some loctite (total $15)
I had the 1 1/4" wooden dowel left from when I did the seat riser which I used to keep the rod from spinning while tightening the Alan bolt. I also had some grease left to use for the front wheel.
So in total about $83. Not too bad

Nope I did not replace big springs, it was the little spring clips that hold the oil seal down that were totally rusted out. I don't know if my big springs were fine,they looked like it, so I put the old ones back in.
Check out BikeBandit, they are really reasonable and have it shipped to you in days, real fast!

if shes single someone needs to snag her!!!

The first time I decided to change the fork oil on mine, I was just a tad surprised to find that the forks had virtually no oil in them at all.  It looked as if someone had put oil in them the check to make sure that they worked, then drained the oil for shipping.  When the dealer took the bike out of the crate and  prepped the bike at time of purchase, the forks were never checked, never had a drop of oil added at all.  Nothing like good old customer service........