Im pretty good with mechanics and not afraid to try new things so going to service them myself. Can anyone tell me what exactly I need for it? I looked on the Sram website and got the service guide nd it seems pretty comprehensive although it is for 2006 and my are newer that though guessing that not much has changed? Cheers!
Oh Ive started noticing a bit of oil on the stanchions recently hence the need for giving them a service. Also if I wanted to uprate the spring where is the best place to get one. Cheers
Anyone help? I found the TF tuned website and found the following kit. Do I want the top or bottom kit for the service? And also I assume 5wt and 15wt oil?
http://www.tftunedshox.com/Catalogue/Shop-RockShox/RockShox/Tora-Parts
Depends how far you want to go with the service, do you want to replace every seal & glide ring in the fork while your doing them? If so you'll need both kits. If you just want to give them a bit of a clean out & replace the seals that are leaking, you'll only need the seal kit that's listed at the top & not the damper seal kit.
Spring wise-whoever you want to buy it from really, but if you're buying the seals from TFT, you might as well buy it from there.
If you need to know anything else just ask, there's plenty of people on here who do their own.
You'll need 5wt oil for the top of the damper leg (120cc-ish) and a small quantity (15cc) of 15wt for lubrication. That said, you can get away with using the 5wt everywhere or somthing thicker like engine oil for the lubrication.
Buy your oil from a motorbike shop. £7 a litre rather than about 3 times that price for "MTB oil"
If the seals are leaking then you'll need new ones. I don't know about Toras, but most RS forks have a seperate black oil seal below the grey wiper seal that you can see. The oil seal is a standard hydraulic ram seal and can be had for about £1 each from a hydraulic suppliers, so you don't need to spend a lot of money on the RS kit if you don't want to. The chances are that in a coil fork like yours there will be nothing else to change internally.
Apart from that you should lather the spring in grease and you'll need a GOOD QUALITY 24mm socket or ring spanner to remove the fork top caps, a couple of allen keys and that's about it.
It is very, very easy to do. 🙂
Get it now its only really a quick freshen up before the winter. The new spring is a lot of money though - thinking ill freshen it up and then save the money for the psring towards a new pair of forks instead!