Aired down my brand new 38 to access volume spacers and it immediately sucked down into full compression. Removed the lowers and the airspring (took some serious hunker to yank it out). Airspring is fully sucked down (shaft pulled all the way up).
Without seeing pics it’s tricky to say for sure. But I think it is normal. As long as the retaining clip on the air spring is properly seated then reinstall the lowers and add air. It should come back. You can add a small amount of air to the spring before reinstalling the lowers to make it easier to screw the bolts on.
sounds like you released all the air at once? Doing that is bad. You got to let out a small amount of air at a time, then stop, and cycle the air from the positive to negative chamber. If you dont cycle the air between chamber then it sucks down on the negative side like a vise.
sounds like you released all the air at once? Doing that is bad. You got to let out a small amount of air at a time, then stop, and cycle the air from the positive to negative chamber. If you dont cycle the air between chamber then it sucks down on the negative side like a vise.
Yup. I now let the air out ever so slowly with the button on my shock pump rather than quick with a hex key. I seem to learn everything the hard way. This lesson cost $140 US . I suppose I could try to salvage it but it would require tearing down my fork again so I’ll pass for now. Lesson learned - don’t let the air out fast and definitely don’t use the equalization buttons with the fork aired down.
sounds like you released all the air at once? Doing that is bad. You got to let out a small amount of air at a time, then stop, and cycle the air from the positive to negative chamber. If you dont cycle the air between chamber then it sucks down on the negative side like a vise.
Yup. I now let the air out ever so slowly with the button on my shock pump rather than quick with a hex key. I seem to learn everything the hard way. This lesson cost $140 US . I suppose I could try to salvage it but it would require tearing down my fork again so I’ll pass for now. Lesson learned - don’t let the air out fast and definitely don’t use the equalization buttons with the fork aired down.
sounds like you released all the air at once? Doing that is bad. You got to let out a small amount of air at a time, then stop, and cycle the air from the positive to negative chamber. If you dont cycle the air between chamber then it sucks down on the negative side like a vise.
Yup. I now let the air out ever so slowly with the button on my shock pump rather than quick with a hex key. I seem to learn everything the hard way. This lesson cost $140 US . I suppose I could try to salvage it but it would require tearing down my fork again so I’ll pass for now. Lesson learned - don’t let the air out fast and definitely don’t use the equalization buttons with the fork aired down.
What did you have to spend the money on?
A new air spring. I’m sure I could’ve eventually prevailed on either the DIY fix or warranty fronts but for $140 the problem is solved and I get to spend that time riding or with the fam. Choose your battles lol