Haven’t been on here for years as my biking activity declined..... Fast forward to lockdown and my Santa Cruz is getting some long overdue TLC, including servicing the shock. A bit of a problem bough - I can’t work out how to extract the mount from the lower eye of the Fox Float RL AVA so I can slide the sleeves off the body. It’s a single piece in a DU (??) bush, I’ve searched the Fox site but it doesn’t show this setup.
Anybody any suggestions which won’t wreck the bushes??
Put one side in a vice and pull and see what happens?
Tried a dead-blow mallet?
If it's the standard alu top hat bushes into the DU bush they simply pull out of either side. The DU bush is one piece and is a press fit into the shock eye. I've never struggled to get any of mine out. There are a variety of heavy duty bushes available & disassembly is different.
Can you post a picture of what it is you're having the problem with?
Is this part of the linkage from the frame? My Yeti has a linkage through one of the eyes rather than top hats, and there is a rather complex set of Yeti drifts to remove it, and then put it all back together with the bearings in the correct place.
