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Hiya burners, I hope everyone is getting their time on the saddle in with the end of daylight savings fast approaching. So I have questions......
I'm trying to get my Fox 40's set up after removing 2 volume spacers. I'm going back to factory settings as a start point and am trying to get my sag set correctly. Now, as I reduce air pressure from the 69 PSI suggested to 60 PSI the forks settle noticeably by about 5-8mm. To test this I pushed the sag ring all the way down and pumped the forks back up and then checked the sag ring again. Yep there was a gap of about 5-8mm between the O ring and the fork seal. Now I know that when I let air out completely to remove the volume spacers the forks dropped considerably but I wouldn't expect they'd do this still at a normal riding pressure. Then I have to physically lift the bike and pull the forks out to full extension which seems odd. Should I be measuring SAG fully extended or where they sat originally? Am I losing some travel here and most imoportantly what could be causing this? I followed Fox's instructions to a T when I removed the spacers so I can't think of why this would happen unless there is a vacuum somewhere or too much pressure in the negative chamber maybe??? Whilst I can do basic fork services the inner workings are voodoo to me so any help is much appreciated.
Cheers team, Scott.
I'm trying to get my Fox 40's set up after removing 2 volume spacers. I'm going back to factory settings as a start point and am trying to get my sag set correctly. Now, as I reduce air pressure from the 69 PSI suggested to 60 PSI the forks settle noticeably by about 5-8mm. To test this I pushed the sag ring all the way down and pumped the forks back up and then checked the sag ring again. Yep there was a gap of about 5-8mm between the O ring and the fork seal. Now I know that when I let air out completely to remove the volume spacers the forks dropped considerably but I wouldn't expect they'd do this still at a normal riding pressure. Then I have to physically lift the bike and pull the forks out to full extension which seems odd. Should I be measuring SAG fully extended or where they sat originally? Am I losing some travel here and most imoportantly what could be causing this? I followed Fox's instructions to a T when I removed the spacers so I can't think of why this would happen unless there is a vacuum somewhere or too much pressure in the negative chamber maybe??? Whilst I can do basic fork services the inner workings are voodoo to me so any help is much appreciated.
Cheers team, Scott.