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It’s external nitrogen/air bladder, joined to the oil shock by a small banjo. Like this photo from ebay.
I spoke to an offroad specialist that’s only down the road and he’s happy to make it so.
Gonna research the Race Tech Gold Valve and such, because if I’m gonna do it, I might as well get the best rebuild I can.
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pdlouche
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PD - It's just a remote reservoir, not an air damper, it helps keep the gas cooler. I've rebuilt two and it's not hard at all aside from finding someone to gas it up after. Have you had a play with the spring and damping calculator on the Racetech website? I reckon some of the off road suspension guys in the UK must carry a bunch of their stuff in stock but if you need I can post it from here, they're only up the road.
By the by, all my off road forks and shocks have ended up with lighter oil in than stock. I think I ended up with 3.5w in the XR on the advice of Precision Concepts (who built all the winning Baja bikes.) Oh and shock oil is different from fork oil....I now have an expensive shelf of shock oil I was planning on using in forks too....
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Have a similar Showa shock that was planning on opening and adding the compression adjustment kit to it. However I knew the shock stroke length was slightly longer, and it fits in the frame, with a bit of a height increase, some of my bike came with that shock factory, however, needs longer side stand etc which haven't got around to fabricating yet. Felt SO much better on the road, especially low to medium speed corners, few degree's steeper head angle was welcome.
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BrickMan
Air spring or air cap on top of damper circuit? Air springs really don't often leak unless something is damaged, or hasn't budged in years and the seal has rolled/burped a bit out. Air cap/damper circuit, yeah they can go in a few different ways.
So long as nothing internally is mangled (surveys desk for scrap yards worth of expensive Fox and RS parts that are mildly mangled) they are never that much to get rebuilt, £120-180, cheap compared to many other things on a bike. Refreshing my forks this month, 6 years since they were last apart, all seals, bushs, oil rings and some fresh springs of a different rate, over £250 in parts and thats not at retail.