What causes stanchion wear?
When dirt gets trapped inside the seals and wipers they will become a gritty abrasive paste and slowly start eating away at your stanchions. Furthermore it will move down to the lower parts where you have bushings that the stanchions glide against and start eating away at that too as well as contaminating your oil.
How often to replace fork seals MTB?
Fork seals should be replaced after 40 hours of riding or two years if you don’t ride very often.
What does stanchion mean in English?
1 : an upright bar, post, or support (as for a roof or a ship’s deck) 2 : a device that fits loosely around the neck of an animal (such as a cow) and limits forward and backward motion (as in a stall)
How do you protect fork stanchions?
ROCKSHOX: You should clean and inspect your stanchions and dust wiper seals before or after every ride. WET SEAL: This depends on how often you ride, where you’re riding and the manufacturer of your fork. We recommend applying Wet Seal once every three rides.
How often should you service a MTB fork?
FOX. FOX recommends a complete overhaul of the fork and shock every 125 riding hours, or yearly, whichever comes first. Of course, if you tend to ride aggressively, or in especially muddy or dusty conditions, you should get service sooner.
How bad is a stanchion scratch?
actually, it’s not that bad. it’s scratching inside the stanchions that’s bad, because it means that air springs or dampers don’t seal completely. How are you scratching the inside of the stanchions? If you do scratch it, you can fix it with high grit wet sanding and the coating with nail varnish.
How do you get scratches out of a fork?
When the scratch has been honed down to your satisfaction. Take an emery cloth strip, about 220 grit and polish up the honed area, shoe shine style, till it looks smooth again. Do it again with 320 grit, and then 400. This is usually as far as I go, but you can finish with fine crocus cloth if you want.
When do you need to replace a fork seal?
Each tube requires a seal to keep the oil of the interior of the tube from leaking out. Fork seals should be replaced as soon as leaking oil is noticed. If the seal is left unchanged, the oil could leak onto the brake pads and ruin your motorcycle or you could run out of oil completely and ruin your motorcycle.
Can you use Wet Seal lubricant on fork stanchions?
WET SEAL: There are Fork Stanchion lubricant “sprays” on the market. We do NOT recommend using sprays or aerosol cans as an applicator. It’s difficult to regulate the amount of liquid that’s extracted- BUT far worse is the risk of the liquid spray getting on the brake pads or brake rotor.
How often should you clean your fork stanchions?
It also helps to keep dirt off the stanchion and seals as the silicon repels dirt and grime to the surfaces cleaner and hence reduces the risk of contaminants getting into the wiper seal (and in turn your fork oil). BIKERUMOR: If so, how often? ROCKSHOX: You should clean and inspect your stanchions and dust wiper seals before or after every ride.
Why does my fork seal keep juddering up?
The juddering he showed us in the video will be due to water/dirt in the lower legs which creates stiction between the stanchion and lower leg bush. Wet your finger with water and try rubbing it on a window and the repeat but this time put any oil on the finger and you’ll notice the difference.
Each tube requires a seal to keep the oil of the interior of the tube from leaking out. Fork seals should be replaced as soon as leaking oil is noticed. If the seal is left unchanged, the oil could leak onto the brake pads and ruin your motorcycle or you could run out of oil completely and ruin your motorcycle.
What are the seals on a fork stanchion?
Your stanchions are protected from dirt and contaminants by your fork seals. These seals serve two purposes. The bottom part keeps your suspension oil in the lower parts of the fork and prevents any contaminants from entering and contaminating your oil.
How do you remove dust seal from Fork?
Wedge the dust seal from the fork leg. Find the fork seal itself. It is held into place by a clip within a groove. Pry the seal out carefully. Flush the area as you go to remove debris within the fork. Take the tube in 1 hand and the stanchion in the other. Use muscle to pull the 2 apart. You will see the seal coming out of hiding as you do this.
The juddering he showed us in the video will be due to water/dirt in the lower legs which creates stiction between the stanchion and lower leg bush. Wet your finger with water and try rubbing it on a window and the repeat but this time put any oil on the finger and you’ll notice the difference.