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[Closed] Let me tell you about my 2004 Bombers

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The oil seal has finally died on my 2004 Marzocchi MX Pros. Let me tell you about them.
They’ve been on two bikes, have ridden up and down Snowdon, toured the Beacons, laughed off Peak District gritstone, and have autopiloted along sub-zero ice rinks in the Lake District.
Most of all they dealt with years of absolutely endless Chilterns winter clag. I think I changed the oil once when they were about a year old.
The rebound adjuster dial fell off after a crash near Pangbourne when they were a month old, but the rebound damping was always exactly the same at any setting (and about right) so I just called it a weight saving.
The lockout switch stopped clicking into place about five years in, but if you put it in about the right place, the lockout works just fine. You don't hear virtuoso violinists moaning about the lack of frets.
Basically, they don't build forks like this any more. The standard service instructions were basically "once a year or so, give them an encouraging nod”.
If anything mechanical breaks on mid-2000 Marzocchis the manual says "hit it with something heavy until it works again”
I'll get excommunicated for revealing this, but old-school Marzocchi owners still meet in secret moonlight covens, up in the hills, to laugh at Fox Forx owners' 25-hour service intervals.
After Trump's nuclear apocalypse, the great giant cockroach war will be fought by bugs trying to hit each other over the head with these things.
Only problem is, the parts are long discontinued. Anyone got a spare OEM 30mm seal kit? Please? These things have got at least another 14 years left in them.


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 6:32 pm
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If you've not pwn3d anyone with them then you're not using them for their intended porpoise - refer to your pwn3rz manual for details.


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 7:11 pm
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I think you can get 30mm aftermarket marzocchi seals on eBay - blue ones!


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 7:14 pm
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Yeah, the techie at TF Tuned wasn't complimentary about those aftermarket ones.


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 7:26 pm
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I was able to get seals for the first decade oil change on mine a couple of years ago. I think I used flea bay.

They are things of wonder reliability wise.

I have the following:-

1997? Z1 bams- brake arch of cheese, but great with an aftermarket brace. Outlasted many bikes, currently on OH’s bike.

2004 bombers (probably my highest mileage fork) still in use.

2004 mx pro-still in use

2006?? 66SL - more valves than a thing with many valves. Very adjustable. In a box, possibly going back on a bike.


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 7:31 pm
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As Windwave are no longer the Marzocchi UK distro they are selling off all their old spares

Their eBay shop is https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/captainmace/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Even if the seals are not listed on eBay message Dom and ask him as they will prob have some stashed in the warehouse somewhere


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 7:40 pm
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Thanks! Have done.


 
Posted : 08/05/2018 7:56 pm
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if you get really stuck I got some off a chap in the US that was recommeneded on here - pm me and I can dig out his details later after work


 
Posted : 09/05/2018 7:29 am