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Originally Posted by CarlosFlys
As you probably know by now, that little spring goes in teh "hydraulic bottom out cone", the white plastic piece under the damper rod.
I have a few questions for you:
1) How many turns on the emulator screws did you use for preload? I used 2.5... The Traxxion Dynamics papers say "2 full turns for street, 3 for race, for track use or more low speed compression damping use alternate emulator hat supplied with emulators" (I did not receive any "alternate emulator hat", unless it's made of clear crystal and I can't see it)
2) Did you reuse all your bushings & seals? The haynes manual goes on about replacing half of them, but they look ok to me (and I don't have replacements) so I just reused the old ones. Is this ok???
3) I assume when you drop the emulators back into the forks, you drop them in with the long part of the screw/preload spring sticking UP. Please confirm - the directions do not say!
4) Traxxion sent me 1 liter of fork oil. I'm halfway done (one fork only) and to me it looks like there won't be enough oil to finish the other fork. Do you happen to remember if you used more than one liter? (assuming you filled to 110mm before springs inserted)
Thanks for the info. I finally had to carve up wooden broom handle and hold the other end of it in a vise... but I got it! W00t! Before midnight too ;-) ... at least the first side...
- Carlos
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Carlos,
Not sure who you directed this to, but here's my $.02 worth:
1) I followed the 2 turns since all of my riding is on the street.
2) I replaced the fork seals and the copper washer under the damper rod bolt.
3) That's what I did. They should nestle into the damper rod that way.
4) I needed more than 1 liter. But then I screwed up my measurement and put too much in the first fork and had to pull the leg back out and dump some out and re-measure. If I hadn't screwed up, I still think it needs a bit more than 1 liter.
I used 10wt fork oil. I also did the ZRX rear shock swap ($140 on ebay!). Now that I've got some miles on it, I'm really happy with how it turned out. Its amazing how much more planted the bike feels. Hope yours goes as well.
Rob
