Can anybody help me? My 2003 Float 80RL worked fine except that it wasn’t plush enough. The pressure was 65psi, but I only weigh ten stones and the Fox manual has a guideline of 50psi. When I let some air out, the stanchions jerked into the lowers (the axle to crown had been 455mm, but went to 445mm), and I couldn’t pull them back out.
It still worked fine, although with less travel, but I thought it couldn’t be right, so I took it to my trusted LBS. A very experienced mechanic said this was normal, but I’ve never known the axle to crown of an SID or Marzocchi to vary with pressure unless there was almost no pressure, and even then you could pull it back out. This Float got shorter at the recommended pressure.
Anyway they gave it a service and said it was fine, and the axle to crown was back to 455mm. However that was at 80psi, so I let air out again and the same thing happened – now the axle to crown is 450mm. Is this normal as they say, or does it sound as though there’s something wrong that the LBS haven’t spotted?
It still worked fine, although with less travel, but I thought it couldn’t be right, so I took it to my trusted LBS. A very experienced mechanic said this was normal, but I’ve never known the axle to crown of an SID or Marzocchi to vary with pressure unless there was almost no pressure, and even then you could pull it back out. This Float got shorter at the recommended pressure.
Anyway they gave it a service and said it was fine, and the axle to crown was back to 455mm. However that was at 80psi, so I let air out again and the same thing happened – now the axle to crown is 450mm. Is this normal as they say, or does it sound as though there’s something wrong that the LBS haven’t spotted?