Rockshox Recon Silver Lower Leg Service
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2020
- Rockshox Recon Silver Lower Leg Service
Rockshox recommend that you do a lower leg service for every 50 hours of riding. I guess its debatable. Personally I feel it depends on the type of riding you do. But I do recommend you do it. And if you do enough research, its really not that difficult to do it yourself.
In this video I take a friend from work's bike to see if I can help him with his suspension fork. A while back he showed me that the shock is constantly bottoming out. Initially I thought it's probably just a matter of adding pressure. But when he brought me the bike I noticed that the dust wiper seal on the drive side was dislodged.
I could see that he already tried to force it back into position by some type of tool. Afraid of damaging it to the point of needing to be replaced, I rather decided to do a lower leg service so that I could put the dust wiper seal back in position that way.
I'm no bike mechanic, but like most, I'm really interested in figuring out how things work and how to maintain my own bike.
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So, calming. I play this video every night before I service my rockshocks to go to bed.
😄... glad it helps you to fall asleep. Maybe I should try it to faal asleep ah night.
Nice vid dude, thanks a lot!
Thanks man. I appreciate the positive feedback.
You're awesome. Cool, calm and collect.
Cool man. Thank you for the feedback.
Thanks Mates
Appreciate you. 🙏🏻
*I haven’t done fork service on my bike, which was purchased in 2012.*
I'd say you might need to do the upper legs as well as the lowers. Forks are expensive. It's good practice to keep them running at full potential. You wouldn't think there is anything wrong, but you definitely feel the difference after a service.
Very useful - I will be using this to service my own Recon Silver fork however I think I will be purchasing new seals
Best to have them and not need them than need them and not have them.
Glad you can make use of the video.
Sending my full support ride safe
God bless sir,,,!
I appreciate the support 🙏
*So, I have a 2011 Rockshox Recon Silver TK. I attempted to hammer each bottom bolt to disengage the upper and lower legs. However, the fork remains stuck. Very frustrating.*
If you hit the bolt and oil comes out then that's your indication that you disengaged the upper stantions from the lower legs. It's possible that the all the seals are dry and that they stick. You might need some more force. Grab the arch that goes over the wheel that is part of the lower legs with your one hand and with the other hold the bottom of the stem and give it a few pulls. Just have something ready to catch the oil if you do get it loose. You might here a popping noise more than once.
I noticed that there is a vacuum that also makes it slightly more challenging.
Let me know how it goes.
Wooow it's a very good video. But ihave a question how much oil did you put on? plz let me know
Well I got a manual from Sram's website. Which made it a little unclear for me. So I emailed them. They asked for a serial number you find on the shock. And sent me the correct information. So according to them 6ml. For the lowers.
6ml in each leg.
@@WestCoastMountainBiker thanks for replying i do tha services to day but i put on like 10ml on each leg you think can affected?
Being a DIY guy myself I try to stay with the recommendations of the manufacturer. I'm not sure if it will cause any problems but what I can tell you is, looking through most of the other models they have most of them are recommended to only get 5 to 6ml in the lowers. If I remember correctly somewhere in the upper legs you add more oil. I hope this helps.
@@WestCoastMountainBiker thank you so much. Yeah i go to follow you recomention .
bel tutorial!! che spray hai usato per pulire? Grazie
Hey. Grazie per il feedback. Si consiglia di utilizzare alcol isopropilico. Ma ho usato un detergente per parti di freni da un negozio di auto. Vorrei ringraziare google translate per avermi aiutato a leggere il tuo commento e per avermi anche dato la possibilità di rispondere
@@WestCoastMountainBiker grazie ancora ...avrei bisgno ancora di un aiuto ..la mia forcella è una rekon silver tk solo air e nella parte inferiore mi dice di aggiungere olio 15 wt da una parte 9ml e dall'altra 5 come faccio a capire quale? grazie
Bene. Di solito parlano di un lato di trasmissione o di un lato della molla per l'ammortizzatore ad aria. E l'altra gamba sarà il lato più umido. Il lato dell'ammortizzatore è dove puoi smorzare la sospensione con un meccanismo di blocco e di solito ha il regolatore di estensione. Non ne sono sicuro al 100%, ma penso che i 9 ml nel tuo caso saranno la molla o il lato guida. E i 5 ml saranno molto probabilmente sul lato dell'ammortizzatore. Spero che questo ti aiuta. Come ho detto prima. Non sono un esperto, ma ho fatto delle ricerche prima di intraprendere questo lavoro.
Do I need to purchase a Rockshox service kit? If not, what do I need replace? Oil seals?
You might clean the oil seals and find that they are still perfect to re use. But the wiper seals can get cracked being more exposed to the elements.
It all depends of the condition of your seals when inspecting. If its just dirty, a good clean might resurrect the seals. A specific kit for your model shock will give you all the oil, grease and seals that you would need when replacing. I have a shop locally where you can buy everything separately as well.
Let me know how it goes.
@@WestCoastMountainBiker I've only seen these thin but faint rings of oil on the stanchions, everything else on the fork seems to be in perfect order. Perhaps a cleaning as you mentioned wil be sufficient?
I feel that a clean part will perform much better than a dirty contaminated part. Its possible that a good clean will do the trick. What Rockshox model do you have? I know that with a 26er shox you get thinner oil seals.
@@WestCoastMountainBiker I've been riding a Rockshox Recon 100mm 29 for two years without a service. I'll be taking it to a mechanic today for a cleaning, and maybe see if I need a full service or not.
I did mine at about 2 years. Its really not that difficult. The only thing you need that most people don't have is a torque wrench. They recommend you do it for every 50 hours of riding. But I feel it depends on the type of riding you do. Best of luck. Where are you based?
When you speak of the oil seals you speak of the foam seals?
how to install remote lock
Hey, I personally haven't done it myself. Are you planning to upgrade from a manual lockout? I went on Rockshox website and used the search option to search for remote lockout. I hope that you find this helpful. To me it seems like you need to replace a inner component as well for the remote lock out adapter to connect on to. If you follow this link you will see what I'm talking about. www.sram.com/en/service/models/rm-upk-pop-a1
Looks like the damper component. I will ask around a bit and see if I can get you more info.
Can I ask what pressure you set it to
Hi man. On my Rockshox Recon their is a pressure chart that uses the riders weight as well as the amount of travel of the fork. You would find this on the Sram website or if you search it in Google using "pressure rockshox fork 100mm travel" you'll see it in images. My fork only has 100mm travel and according to my weight you can look at between 100psi and 120psi. But for my preference I take it closer to 100psi.
In this video though I'm working on someone else's fork and I set it to his weight according to the chart.
Hope this helps.
Tks...... You didn't say type of oil you used
Hi. Sorry for that. I did not use the recommended Sram shox oil. I asked around at some bike shops who say they do the 50 hour service. And the preferred oil to use is like a low weight synthetic oil. The one I used was 5W30 Synthetic. One mechanic even said he uses 10W30 and has not had any problems. Hope this helps.
@@WestCoastMountainBiker excellent!!.. Thanks for the reply. I'll have a look at my shocks soon👍
I'm glad if I could help. Thanks for the support and goodluck.
@@WestCoastMountainBiker sorry to worry you.... What air pressure did you put into that shock?
I only used the weight of the owner of the bike in mind. You have to adjust according to sag after such a service. But there is a chart on the fork itself. I pumped his shock up to 120psi according to his weight.