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No air valve on the 27.2mm external cable posts. Sags about 5-10mm when sat on, just like my garbage gen one reverb. I thought these were meant to be better.
Any home remedies?
Drop us a line - sales@jungleproducts.co.uk and we'll talk you through the options
Report back when you find out. Very slow return on mine. There's this:
http://www.peterverdone.com/ks-lev-27-2-rebuild-and-speed-increase/
I've found the little hole shown here but not had any luck adding pressure:
I get a 550 error 5.1.1 <sales@jungleproducts.co.uk>: Email address could not be found, or was misspelled (G8).
I've emailed info@jungleproducts.co.uk as well?
Sorry thought that would have a catchall on it - we'll get the info one and respond asap
Turns out the answer is pay £100, as dropper posts are only meant to last more than 100km if you conduct full services on them every 100km - according to Jungle.
The new 27.2 posts have an air valve at the top..
I think the newer cartridges are retrofittable to the old posts? if they are, i would highly recommend just buying one of those.. as the old style is just a massive pain to deal with.. i have rebuilt a few.. and even when rebuilt properly.. they always slowed back down and started sagging slightly again with a couple of months.
with the old style posts..
It is possible to dissasemble the oil filled 'damper' and refill with lighter weight oil (to speed it up) without losing any air pressure from the finnicky air spring that needs a custom needle.. and masses of luck to refill properly..
A refill with oil will likely fix the sagging issue too.. one thing to note when reassembling.. is that you need to slightly preload/compress the air spring with the oil in the other part when screwing back together... if the air spring isnt preloaded/compressed slightly, the post wont return to the full 100mm height..
@continuity I feared as much. Well, I'm slightly more fortunate in that mine stays up, just doesn't return very quickly, but at least a tug fixes it. I've had three other Lev's and so far good luck with them, but not this one.
Very slow return on mine.
Has someone used the wrong grease on it? I did when I serviced mine, and it became *very* sluggish - had to clean it all off and do it again with the ridiculously expensive, super runny grease. Ok now (apart from needing a thump to make it come up again if it’s been left down for a few days.)
Reverbs get a slating, but by and large, they just work, and are easily fixable if they don’t. (2 Reverbs - 3 if you include mrs. Tillydog’s bike and 1 Lev).
No air valve on the 27.2mm external cable posts. Sags about 5-10mm when sat on, just like my garbage gen one reverb. I thought these were meant to be better.
Any home remedies
Buy another garbage reverb. You can rebuild them at home and refill the air without some stupid poncy special tool or binning a cartridge.
(Granted some special tools are needed but not to put air in)
I've got a couple of reverbs and a couple of KS droppers. Guess which ones still work like new?
Actually ignore that there's no 27.2 anyway.