fork oil

[Anthony]

Changing the fork oil on this T120V I find a green oil in there.  The Clymer manual says use 200 cc of 30W however, the decal on the fork top bold says, 190cc of several possibilities, castrol tgf, esso glide, mobil atf 210(is all atf the same?), shell donax t7, texaco texamatic,bp autran 8.  Can anyone shine any light on this?  Do they still make this stuff and if not, what should I refill this fork with?  

[L.A.B.]

The factory workshop manual lists the oil type for the forks as 'automatic transmission fluid' and also lists the names you have given although I think the cap decal says 'TQF' not 'TGF'. TQF type fluid is still available and yes there are different types of ATF although what difference that would make when used in a motorcycle fork I do not know?
The green oil is likely to be a proper fork oil that is formulated specifically for use in motorcycle forks so you could use either type I suppose?

[TBS]

I use a fully synthetic heavy duty fork oil, such as Putoline HPX  sae 20w works perfectly.


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