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Howard
@Howard :) never heard of them
Stoppy stoppy Slippy slippy.
Got 500ml of Dot 5.1 and 5ooml of 7.5wt fork oil.
Found J-Tech and had a quick chat about rebuilding an old shock when I find out it has dry seals after flat landing something rad and it blows oil all over the back tyre.
If the fork seals need doing then I will get them to do that as well and they have the SKF ones. I don't have the tooling for setting seals in place so let a mechanic do that.
My limit is going to be whip off the top caps, have the springs out and drain the oil, quick flush and refill for now.
Found old notes in the manual about oil volume so no guess work on that front. Do have an old pdf of what I think is the full service manual for the Marzocchi 66 series fork so need to have a look into that and print it off.
Should have the Z series manual too.
Brakes.
Stock fitted was Avid Juicy 3. While nice to use and I liked them, the back brake has a nasty habit of not working. Juicy's have an old rep for being a bit crap.
As I have found spare sets of pads it's worth a punt to trim the hoses and re-bleed. Probs not worth the hassle or cost of trying to find spares.
I have a couple of sets of Hope M4's the Black&Gold set in the box can be swapped out onto Monk as IS calipers and fixed at 180-160 and the newer Tech M4 hopefully would match up on the Avid adapters to 200mm rotors.
All 3 brake sets are Dot 5.1, all could do with fresh stoppy juice and maybe some new hose (braided hose FTW but not for cost)
Pull the pads, clean everthing, knock up a bleed rig
Will randomly throw in bits of chatter as we go along, anyone remember the Fro-Riders ? :) might have some old magazines with advertising for that. A very funny spat between Cannondale and the bike industry and Rocky Mountain calling them out on it :)