Nambra
Definitely should have gone to specsavers
Hoping for some assistance from the brains trust...
I've read quite a few posts on the interwebs about people replacing the stock Rockshox DU bushing hardware on the Monarch with the Fox 5-piece low friction polymer bushing kit and have experienced better small bump sensitivity from their shock. I got curious and tacked a Fox kit on to a recent online order to see if it would work for me too, as the existing stock Monarch setup seemed overly stiff.
I'm trying to install it on a bog standard Monarch RT3. I removed the stock bushing using the proper tool. I watched the Fox bushing installation video and it looked like a piece of piss - tool free apparently. But my experience differs somewhat. I managed to get the two yellowish coloured polymer DU bushings into the shock eye, but they were noticeably more difficult to push in than the video suggested. The axle itself I simply could not push in by hand, I would have needed the bushing tool to force it in, but that didn't seem right as the video guy did it without tools.
Have I missed something here? Is the Fox kit not compatible with RS - both have 15mm shock eyelet bore diameters don't they? Or is there some Fox v RS incompatibility trickery going on... It's as if the Fox polymer bushings get compressed slightly as they go in and the internal diameter is reduced such that the axle just doesn't go in or rotate easily. Removed from the shock the axle and bushings fit together perfectly and there is very little friction between them.
Any thoughts, before I give up on the idea?
I've read quite a few posts on the interwebs about people replacing the stock Rockshox DU bushing hardware on the Monarch with the Fox 5-piece low friction polymer bushing kit and have experienced better small bump sensitivity from their shock. I got curious and tacked a Fox kit on to a recent online order to see if it would work for me too, as the existing stock Monarch setup seemed overly stiff.
I'm trying to install it on a bog standard Monarch RT3. I removed the stock bushing using the proper tool. I watched the Fox bushing installation video and it looked like a piece of piss - tool free apparently. But my experience differs somewhat. I managed to get the two yellowish coloured polymer DU bushings into the shock eye, but they were noticeably more difficult to push in than the video suggested. The axle itself I simply could not push in by hand, I would have needed the bushing tool to force it in, but that didn't seem right as the video guy did it without tools.
Have I missed something here? Is the Fox kit not compatible with RS - both have 15mm shock eyelet bore diameters don't they? Or is there some Fox v RS incompatibility trickery going on... It's as if the Fox polymer bushings get compressed slightly as they go in and the internal diameter is reduced such that the axle just doesn't go in or rotate easily. Removed from the shock the axle and bushings fit together perfectly and there is very little friction between them.
Any thoughts, before I give up on the idea?