09/12/08-fork re build

i am going for zen master status on working on marzocchi suspension products. I have worked on super t's, dirt jumpers, monster t's...both old and new style and now a few 888's. the first time changing out the oil on hack's fork (new style 888) was a nightmare. the process took us around six hours...a case of beer and hack pulling the stansions out of the lowers once.

i was determined to make the process easier. I was also a bit frustrated that I took the fork to a local expert a few weeks back, just before the whistler trip to be exact; the person that worked on the fork did not cycle the legs to drain out the oil that was in the valving of the fork! I measured the amount of oil that came out of the fork and it was almost 50% more that what should have been in there....no wonder it was only getting about 4 inches of travel.

I took the fork apart piece by piece, cleaning each part as i laid it out on the table like a surgeon and body parts. after all was clean and taken apart and i CYCLED THE LEGS OF THE FORK TO GET OUT ALL EXCESS OIL i put it back together, filled it with the proper amount of oil and what do you know...it work like new!

I guess if you want things done and done right, you do it yourself!

We are riding blackrock tomorrow. I am excited, I haven't been there for months! report to follow; it's filming time!