|   Help!! X-vert Air reassembly problem | Paul
Oct 20, 2001 7:14 PM | | Just replaced the rebound damper assembly and did routine maintenance to the fork. Can't get the 8mm bolt threaded thru the lower leg into the rebound assembly. Even when I compress the fork. Either it just doesn't line up and/or for some reason the 8mm bolt can't reach the threads of the inner leg. It worked this moorning and I have had the fork apart before with no problem. I am puzzled. My friend thinks the bushing in the oouter leg slipped up into the fork leg. Any ideas? |
| re: Help!! X-vert Air reassembly problem | ned
Oct 21, 2001 12:01 AM | | I can only apply general (pre-tpc+) xvert things I've come across, and putting them back together can be a pain. The rebound assembly pretty much does its own thing (in compression) until you put a bolt through it, and mine would always do what you described and just slowly get pushed further and further away until the bolt could no longer reach it. I'd just take out the spring stack on the other side so I could get full compression (I guess you just let the air out) and then make sure I engaged the rebound assembly.
Also, unless they've changed along the way, the rebound damper rod has a slight change of diameter at the bottom where it sorta slips into a recess on inside of the actual lowers, full compression should let you engage this critical point you'll feel and see it when it happens, and then tighten it up to proper torque. It's easy to overdo the bolt, but there's no point anyway cos it's just the damper, and as I found out the damper rods are lightweight and break really easy at that point when overtightened. Good luck |
| Try it again. | heff®
Oct 21, 2001 4:30 PM | | There's nothing that can slip up to prevent the bolt from hitting the threads. Remove your lowers again, pull the rebound shaft all the way out, then carefully slide the lowers back on. In the event that it moves up into the stanchion while you're sliding the legs on, release all the pressure from the air chamber, AND remove the topcap. If you haven't done this, the short coil spring in the fork is holding you up just a bit. Compress the fork all the way, then thread the bolt in while the fork is compressed. That's kindof key, really, because you can push the threaded section into the fork leg again pretty easily. It should seat in the hole in the lowers, there's a lip on the piston threads to line it up properly. To sortof paint a picture, the threaded portion should seat about halfway through the hole in the lowers.
heff® |
| Use a small allen key. | Dougal
Oct 21, 2001 6:10 PM | | Use a small allen key or something similar to line up the shaft and the hole.
As soon as it's in wind the nut in by hand to catch it.
Dougal.8m.com |
| I found working on it upside down helps. nm | Steve from JH
Oct 21, 2001 7:33 PM | | |
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