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Having issues with my Pike sucking down in its travels following a debonair air shaft travel change.
When ever I've had this before I've been able to fix it with the zip tie under the fork seal to let the air out. Not this time. So I have stripped the fork and going to do a full clean before re-assembly.
Is there any thing special to clean i.e inside the air shaft? Is the transfer port the small indent inside the stanchion tube or on the air shaft itself?
Then re-assembly is just the o-ring in greasing and nothing else on the air shaft? So it doesn't happen again?
Cheers
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Sucked down by how much ? Both of mine rest at about 7%.
Transfer port is the indent.
I had a similar problem on a set of lyriks, and after a lot of head scratching it turned out to a wee port in the air side that was blocked.
To fix it, the recommendation was to let out all the air, take off the head of the air shaft, then good and hard pull to extend the lowers.
Only way I could get purchase to do this was to flip the bike upside down, feet on the bars, then yank good and hard on the lowers (held at the bridge).
There was a very satisfying 'schoop' sound just as advised, and the forks had full travel again.
Maybe a help?
Cool will try
It's pretty standard for there to be a little 'negative travel' with the debonair shaft, its due to the increased negative volume. Its nothing to worry about, makes for a beautifully plush feel off the top, hoovers up the chatter so much better than the standard shaft. Unless it's a significant amount of travel lost, I'd not stress about it mate.
I had the same problem with some Lyrik after a change to the new debonair shaft, in the end I sent it back to TF after unsuccessfully trying the "let all the air out and pull it" method. I think they said it was too much grease on the transfer port as you suggest.
All good advice, but why let the air out ? What is the plan ?
Sounds like to much grease to me. I had the same issue (although not from changing the shaft) and got sick of inverting the bike and janking on the forks to temporarily fix it. Whipped them open to find about 10 tubs of grease in there and the transfer port clogged up. Cleaned it up and applied the correct amount and it's been good as gold for 2 years now.
Put a debonair shaft 130mm in my 18 revelations and charger damper. They still feel harsh on small stuff most of the time a d generally a bit poop. Running 25% and 5 clicks from full fast.
Am I missing something ???
Mate had same issue with a rock shox fitted debonair, did a bottom end service which did nowt. Took the spring out and despite the top nut being off there was a big pop. Seemed the debonair likes to suck air past the seals but not let it out again. I blamed what seemd to be a lack of oil. Cleaned, refitted and working a charm.