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Just buy any old fork oil.. As long as it's the correct viscosity, you don't need to be spending £££££

The suspension on the XT is pretty terd anyway so getting anal on oil quality will make zero difference.
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As long as it's the correct viscosity
That's my issue. I'm not bothered about oil quality or trying to make it better, I just want to keep the damping as it is, nice and compliant for off road use, but not wallowing on road. The Yamaha G10 oil is 33 cST@40, so I need to find something with a similar viscosity. Since, as posted above, the SAE system is pretty useless for measuring viscosity of a hydraulic fluid, I don't just want to go out and buy any old 10w oil and shove it in, I've made that mistake before on damper rod forks as it turned out the 10w I bought was more like a 15 or 20w in most other manufacturers oils.

The Silkolene 10w fork oil fits the bill, but you need just over 1/2 litre per fork, and I can only find it in litre bottles, so I need to buy about twice as much oil as I'm going to use.

The Yamalube 10w comes in 500ml bottles, but I can't find the cST@40 rating anywhere.
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hmm !

If you buy a reputable brand of oil, it's going to be the weight on the bottle..

If you want to improve your XT suspension, change it or learn to live with it.

The components are cheap and built to budget. The oil is a very small part in the equation.

You could try some progressive Hagon springs but they will only help so much.. Springs can only be progressive so much before they seriously stop doing what they're meant to do.

You really can't have the best of both worlds. You simply can't have plush off-road suspension which doesn't wallow and dive while hard braking on tarmac.

Have it stiff and suffer off-road or keep it supple and learn to deal with the diving.
There will always be a compromise. You have to decide how you do most of your riding and what you're willing to live with.
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