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Ok I’ll play with the oil levels some more. I set the oil levels with the stanchion pulled up. Is that wrong. Should I be doing it with it fully down? The docs don’t explicitly say and it’s hard to tell from the pics I’ve been using the z3 light specs because the travel is the same (65mm) I...

hehe yeah i noticed the lack of compression when it was full up. those levels were mostly to check for leaking when i was initially playing with it and left it screwed back together and lying on its side overnight I've got the levels down a bit but still experimenting. I think 35-40 from the...

any tips on how i can undo it?? I've tried prying at the edge with a long screwdriver - i dont have any needle nose pliers long enough to reach in good news the oil hasn't leaked yet even after a few KMs of riding

the insides are ok and match the manual this is the underside of the outer tube that hex bolt in green is to adjust the friction damper and it looks like the bit in red is holding the stanchion

unfortunately all the manuals i've found in the archives here and elsewhere dont 100% match mine - especially the foot nut - mine don't have one :( i cut a few mm off one of the springs and put them both in 1 fork as as test and filled both stanchions with oil it... works, a bit too firm...

all the bikes ive had have always had rigid forks (and thats my plan for this bike - ithink its an 80s scott). i got my last bike in the 90s and sold it when moving about 10 years ago - so i'm totally in the dark when it comes to suspension forks, the different types and how they work i dumped...

Heh yep turns out i had to remove them completely from the crown - the ring clip was keeping them in. Once in locked I could finger unscrew. So much shredded foam in there, like the padding on crutches argh I’m struggling getting the stanchions off now according to the manual there should be...

I have some leftover atf I could donate to this experiment I tried undoing the 25mm nut on top of the stanchions but it just stops after about 10 turns Is there anything else holding it

thanks for the info They were stuck to the dust covers Once I pried those up they moved freely a little too freely. There’s almost no resistance and they drop straight down under their own weight. Guess I’ll bin them

Hi all I got an old 80s (I think) bike recently with a set of locked up bomber z3s on it. The date stamp on the inside of the fork is 96 ive read online (and this forum seems to have the most knowledge about these forks) that it was kind of common for these to lock up after sitting unused Is...