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I'm 6 months and about 500 miles (I know I don't drive it that much) into my fluid change. So far I have noticed much better warm up times in cold weather ( It will shift smoothly about 5 minutes sooner) . I have also noticed softer shifts, not sure if that is good or bad. The old shifts were...

Floridianson - I'm curious, did the fluid engineer give any reasoning to why the transmission would run cooler with a thicker oil? I've always assumed that a thicker oil would allow components to heat up more, but that was always my assumption, I don't have any basis behind that.

That was one of the first things I did as well. The oil that came out looked good, smelled fine, tasted great. I did not see any signs of trouble, no aluminum, no burnt smell but I do wonder how many transmissions have survived vs died. The most noticeable change has been the transmissions...

And apparently I can't proofread, transmission works fine, not forks fine. Oh well, I hope you all can figure out what I meant.

I know I have seen plenty of failure threads on the 1545, are there any out there that haven't failed?