arcticflipper Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 I've recently had the forks service, valves cleaned etc. Now I got them back today, but I'm not sure the job is done correctly. The left fork returns slower than the right. Is this right? Does the one fork control dampning or is there a compensation for the LBS built into the one fork - left fork when sitting on the bike? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rockmeupto125 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 There should be no difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcticflipper Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 Fuck that's what I thought! I've now had the forks out twice in one week! Taken it to a dealership ant told them that it wasn't right, they keep on giving bullshit stories. So now what do I do? Do I strip the fork down that feels like it has no rebound dampning? or do I get new valving and replace both? SHIT this is frustrating the crap out of me now. Can someone please give me advise on this? I don't really understand or know how the valving works together with the oil piston. From what I can gather the oil pistons actually controle the flow of the oil, and not so much the valving on OEM setups. Thus the reason why you change the valving on the forks to allow better oil flow control to be handled by the shim stack (valving) instead of the oil piston. So from this it seems like the oill piston could be clogged up? I've recently opened and cleaned the shim stacks on the valving - not me but the stealer did it while I was watching. I did notice that the valving looked different on the two forks. Does anyone have more info, the workshop manual doesn't say much about the forks and valving nor oil piston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcticflipper Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 OK opened up the fork. Pumped the dampning rod a couple of times, and it never gets harder - this kinda tells me that when the shim stack in the valving was cleaned it must have somehow been damaged. Now the dampning rod on the inside of the fork is connected to the valving? Or is the valving also known as the dampning oil piston? If I order valving online, do I just replace the old OEM valving with the new set, or is there more to this than that? HELP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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