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#21 ·
Fox and the vast majority of all forks are misaligned from the factory anyway. Kind of sad the industry can't be bothered to make alignment a priority. Nothing would make a bigger difference in smoothness than tighter tolerances. Problem is hub tolerances are also sloppy so even a perfectly aligned fork will vary in feel from hub to hub.
 
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slimat99 said:
Fox and the vast majority of all forks are misaligned from the factory anyway. Kind of sad the industry can't be bothered to make alignment a priority. Nothing would make a bigger difference in smoothness than tighter tolerances. Problem is hub tolerances are also sloppy so even a perfectly aligned fork will vary in feel from hub to hub.
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At least for the hub issue Fox has tried to address that with the floating axle pinch bolt design on the 36 and 38 forks.
 
#27 ·
Personally I find greasing the seals gives a very temperory increase in performance. It definately make the fork feel really good immediately after the rebuild but that performance gain is gone by the end of the first ride.
 
#29 ·
I'll also add that after many years of trying many seals, I notice the least breakaway resistance with the ones from Push. On all the forks I've tried them on, they have made a noticeable difference. They don't last long, but they do perform as advertised. The next best, believe it or not, have been the factory Fox ones.
 
#32 ·
Bikedog22 said:
The first thing I do with a new fork is rebuild it. An old habit from the 90s when Z1s would be shipped somewhat dry.

I also will drip T9 on the seals, cycle the fork and wipe. And do it again. It's dusty here.
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Still the same to this day. The Marzocchi Z2 that came on my Rocky Mountain Instinct last April was completely dry in the lowers and no foam rings at all.
 
#35 ·
For about 10 years now, I've been putting a light coating of Slickoleum on my fork and shock stanchions as well as the dropper stanchion and cycling them about 5 times before wiping them clean and cleaning everything with Maxima SC1.

It seems to pull out a bunch of junk from the seals and keeps the stanchions gliding smoothly.

It takes me forever to service all of these parts so I'm just trying to extend the time between service, but maybe it's all in my head.
 
#37 ·
In pretty much ever piece of suspension I've serviced, you always put some grease on a seal that slides on metal AND if there's a lip to the seal, you put it in that lip. Just for putting the uppers back in the lowers even, otherwise with no grease the seal can drag and deform as you are trying to get the stanchions inserted in the lowers.

The foam on the other hand, that's mean to capture oil bath lube you put in there, so you don't do anything special there IME and in some cases a new fork that has been given the right amount of bath oil will "suck it up" readily, as the pores and things like the foam absorb and don't leave any "sloshing". Sometimes that's a bit of an issue, but some people jump too fast also IME to claim that no oil was put in there.
 
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Jayem said:
In pretty much ever piece of suspension I've serviced, you always put some grease on a seal that slides on metal AND if there's a lip to the seal, you put it in that lip. Just for putting the uppers back in the lowers even, otherwise with no grease the seal can drag and deform as you are trying to get the stanchions inserted in the lowers.

The foam on the other hand, that's mean to capture oil bath lube you put in there, so you don't do anything special there IME and in some cases a new fork that has been given the right amount of bath oil will "suck it up" readily, as the pores and things like the foam absorb and don't leave any "sloshing". Sometimes that's a bit of an issue, but some people jump too fast also IME to claim that no oil was put in there.
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I always soak the foamrings in bathoil before I mount them.
I do oil the seals too, no grease.
Rather don’t want the rings to soak up the bathoil.
I’ll clean the stanchions and the build up at the seals everytime before I go for a ride with some Brunox forkdeodarant.
Works for me.
 
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