Is there a way to remove the black bit from the blue bit?

Blue is the turnkey lockout, black is the top cap

there is but dont…. believe me.

Whats wrong with it?

70mm out of 120mm travel. Someone on bike radar suggested removing the turnkey to see if it made a difference.

could be a number of things – Do you have a remote lever?

no, turnkey

crown mounted? Is it an air fork?

Yeah crown mounted. It’s a coil spring

The full saga: http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12618940&start=0

The only thing to check would be the oil volume in the turnkey and in the lower legs – if this is correct then I wouldn’t start stripping that apart…

and the suggestion to remove the turnkey http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12620034&start=0

Plenty of oil in the turnkey. Don’t have the lowers off.

It might be too much oil. Check the volume againt SRAM.com technicall. Same with the lowers

Really dont pull the turnke apart….

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What happens if I do?

that’ll defo ve too much of something in the lowers, my bro had the same problem with his recon 351’s, I took the lowers off and a bit of water came out – mixed with the oil – cleaned them out, put the right amount of oil in and hey presto 130mm of travel again

Its a pain in the arse and it will not help you find the travel your missing.

However if you would rather spend the evening in the shed rather than the pub…..

Just finished a full strip down and rebuild. Unfortunately neither Halfords, Evans or a local motor factors carry any fork oil so I had to re-cycle the stuff that was already there.

I discovered that the upper leg had about 50ml too much oil in it straight out of the factory. 🙄

Initial bounce test once it was rebuilt shows massive improvements. Getting about 90mm just by really pushing down on the bars versus a max of 70mm before even when I was out riding.

IIRC you are in Glasgow? The motorbike shops on Great Western Road sell fork oil.

I tried a couple of motorbike places in the southside and they were closed but I couldn’t be bothered trailing up to the west end too.