my forks
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CHEWY
Eats Squid
yea it happens to a lot of marz's.... its the cryro(sp?) fit crown starting to seperate from the stanctions... u could try turning ur bike upside down and putting some loctite red (i think) in the tiny gap between stanction and crown, ive heard that stops the creaking. or if theyre still in warrnety marz should fix em up no worries.
could also be ur headset or brakes
could also be ur headset or brakes
curtisrider
Eats Squid
alot of exr';s make sqeaking sounds then die /bend etc.
check the headtube though
check the headtube though
ok, um, i meant greasing the seals, not WD40.
to do it properly you'll need fork oil, some grease,a bucket, a few tools and about 10 mins (20 mins if you keep having to look for things the way i always do).
with the bike suspended, remove the front wheel. remove the top caps from the forks. then slide the spring out. put the bucket under the forks and undo the nut at the bottom of the leg and watch all your oil fall into the bucket. see why it was there?
repeat on other leg.
slowly slide the lower legs off the forks.
check and see that they are clean, and not full of the mud that you really don't want to use as damping fluid.
put a liberal amount of grease around the interior of the seal. this is the perfect time to check that the seals are still good anyway, so check that as well.
being carefull not to trap any of the seal, replace the lowers. replace the nuts on the end of the legs, fully compress the forks and refill with oil to the correct height (check the marzocchi site for the right height), gently cycle the forks thru a few up and downs to make sure the fork oil level is correct. replace springs and caps. wipe everything down, and replace wheel.
you just serviced your forks, and didn't use WD40.
enjoy the new and improved feel of your forks till next time.
to do it properly you'll need fork oil, some grease,a bucket, a few tools and about 10 mins (20 mins if you keep having to look for things the way i always do).
with the bike suspended, remove the front wheel. remove the top caps from the forks. then slide the spring out. put the bucket under the forks and undo the nut at the bottom of the leg and watch all your oil fall into the bucket. see why it was there?
repeat on other leg.
slowly slide the lower legs off the forks.
check and see that they are clean, and not full of the mud that you really don't want to use as damping fluid.
put a liberal amount of grease around the interior of the seal. this is the perfect time to check that the seals are still good anyway, so check that as well.
being carefull not to trap any of the seal, replace the lowers. replace the nuts on the end of the legs, fully compress the forks and refill with oil to the correct height (check the marzocchi site for the right height), gently cycle the forks thru a few up and downs to make sure the fork oil level is correct. replace springs and caps. wipe everything down, and replace wheel.
you just serviced your forks, and didn't use WD40.
enjoy the new and improved feel of your forks till next time.
Grip
Yeah, yeah... blah, blah.
Ah well.... lupine that was a much appreciated answer... by ME and probably many others! Thanks for taking the time to do that FOR US!!!!!!alexMc said:
But it makes me wonder why we bother sometimes. Eh? I think I made my feelings on this topic known in this thread
http://www.farkin.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4556&start=25
but it certainly got up some people's noses there... so if anyone's sensitive about they way they do things don't even look.