Had a look around for servicing instruction and got Peter Poddys and the sram video - can you realistically use normal motorbike fork oil for them and just use the 5wt? and get the seal kit/motion control service kit as well?
It is as straightforward as poddy makes it look, yes. Once you buy proper rockshox seal kits and dust seals as well it starts becoming nearly as expensive as getting someone like LoCo to do it for you.
Don't know about the oil. You definitely do need the correct weight and volume of oil for the motion control damper. Not sure if using thinner oil for the rest is good or not: it needs to slosh everywhere between the bottom of the lowers and the dust seals, and i guess it is 15wt so some of it stays in the foam rings just under the dust seals. Just buy some svi rock oil from a motorbike person on ebay; you only need about 30mls per service so a little bottle wil last for aaaages.
There is also someone on ebay who sells non-rockshox o-rings and crush washers for about a tenner. That will do for a dual air reba with motion control. You don't get the replacement schraeder valves you would in a proper rockshox kit, or the dust seals of course, but that would be worth a look.
Yes motorbike fork oil is good and 5W for the damper and 15W for lubricating the lowers. Just got one of the eBay seal kits for £8, the guy sends them out quickly.
ahh OK - many thanks 🙂
It's pretty straight forward to do the service - I've got 2008 Reba Dual air U-turns and service them fairly often.
My tips would be:
- read the instructions few a good few times so you are quite familiar with what you are trying to do.
- Have plenty of rags/tissue handy to mop stuff up with & containers to put things/catch things in.
- decent circlip pliers (external & internal) will help a lot. If you buy new, make sure the working part of the tool that inserts into the holes of the circlip are small enough - I bought some posh circlip pliers & the little stubs are too meaty to go through the holes in the little clips. Try to avoid the internal/external swappable circlip pliers. They wibble around & you'll end up mangling the clips & making the whole thing a load more effort than it needs to be.
I've used motorbike fork oil in mine & it doesn't seem to be a problem. I've also used the stuff that CRC sell, which is fairly cheap.
cool - thanks stumpy - think i'll give it a go - I can always send them to Simon @ Loco if I get in a pickle - have been fine with my Fox's so prob not too much more effort - thanks for the circlip tips 🙂
Anyone got a link to the service instructions please?
2010 version