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[Closed] Convert Dual Air U-turn Pikes 454 to U-turn coil?

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can i do this?
what parts do i need? just the spring assembly?
air spring is leaky i think and i like the feel of coil.
do i need other bits top and bottom?


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 11:56 am
 LoCo
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Air uturn csu different won't work, stealth edit ๐Ÿ˜‰

Dual air to uturn coil will work, the air uturn system is a complete internal unit that just connects to the chassis at the top of uppers and into the lower legs only


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 11:58 am
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I like my air better than the coil I have.


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 12:01 pm
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I was told it wasn't possible due to the uppers not having an indentation for the circlip that holds a bottom-plate. Be interested if it was.


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 12:04 pm
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I'm not sure you can - I thought the Air U-Turn legs, the upper stanchions that is, lack the circlip groove you need to hold the spring assembly in place. It works the other way round though because I did it - I also prefer the air Pikes to the coil ones. Might be wrong though.


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 12:09 pm
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thanks loco.
according to this thread: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/converting-air-pikes-to-coil ,

air uturn upper tubes do not have a circlip groove needed for the base plate / neg spring assembly ,

can you shed some light?
can you get/have you got neg spring and top-cap assemblies?

to be sure, these are Dual Air, U-turn 454s
thanks again


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 12:27 pm
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yeh, so dual air U-TURN to to coil won't work.
NON U_TURN dual air will. right?


 
Posted : 19/03/2014 12:37 pm