Scott Unishock

[literocola]

I was just wondering how those elastomers worked out for ya?

I have an 86 Specialized StumpJumper with the VR fork on it. I tore the fork apart today in hopes of un-siezing it. Once I got it apart, 4 of the 6 elastomers have melted into this super sticky tar like substance.

I would like to rebuild this fork and need elastomers, I was inquiring about how yours turned out, and perhaps where you ordered them from.

-literocola

 

[jimo746]

ahh.... the bushings.... well they arrived ok, appear to be the correct diameter etc etc, bowever as they are automotive bushings they have the metal sleeve in them which I need to remove. Currently my garage is not properly set up after I moved house last year, so I've not had a chance to utilise a vice and a big hammer and drift yet :twisted: so at the moment things are on hold, I have however contacted suspensionforkparts.net with a view to getting some elastomers made for the forks, so I'll update this thread as/when things happen.
Incidentally, I was thinking of fitting these forks to an 88' Stumpjumper frame

 

[ishaw]

You could try pace grease instead of judy butter, still available for about £9 a tub I think. You can still get judy butter I think, try the tf tuned website. Manitou also do some form of grease I believe?