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I know this is always your advice
I think for dampers they've got quite complex now - well at least the RS and Fox ones are - and it's quite hard for a home mechanic to do it well and economically. If air is getting in it means oil is leaving somewhere which means seals need doing.
Lowers and even air spring stuff can definitely be done at home although you've got to be really careful with the later. One slip with a tool and it's new CSU tiem!
Can you remove the damper as a cartridge? That way you could just post that off rather than the entire fork.
Howard-
Air Spring on the fox fork just pulls out when you've got the lowers off. No tools required, so quite hard to mess up.
Yeah, I could remove the damper - but then it looks super fragile. If i was to post, I think i'd leave it in the fork as the best protection going. I've messaged Moose cycles in Colliers Wood as I could drop the fork there on my commute. They are fox service people so should at least know a lot more than me.
Still, I'm going to give the oil change a go first. I just like to try and do stuff myself and so far touches wood its all been fine.
Scrabble
I know this is always your advice (and you're no doubt right) but I'm tight and this looks like it could cost me £200?
I don't think the issue I have at the moment is £200 worth of annoying. Plus I'd have to remove the forks/ pack them up and post them, which is also annoying.
If I can bleed the system myself it's circa £5 in 8mm tube/syringe as I already have some 5wt oil.
I've done the lowers myself in the past and had that Cannondale headshock apart a few times so back myself to not fuck the bleed up, if its as simple as I think. If it works temporarily because the seals are shot I'll know it needs the full works and won't be out of pocket by more than a pint.
Just wondering if anyone else has done it before and what the results were like/ if there is some show stopper I'm not aware of.