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Here's the story. Yesterday my friend and I decided to work on his 2007 888 SL ATA, and remove the par piston. We did, successfully. (Only opened the ATA side, didn't touch the damper side.)
Put the fork back together, pump it up to 100psi.
Result is the fork feels nice and plush with the first 130mm of travel, and we never get it more than 160mm.
So, we put the bike upside down, deflate the fork, opened the damperside foot nut, compress the fork, let the air out and seal it up again.
Tried with hands to compress the fork (when there's very low air pressure in sfa chamber), yes ,we can bottom it out.
Pump it up to 100psi, still counldn't get more than 160mm.
Are we missing anything?
some extra info:
We couldn't buttom out the fork originally when the par is still there with correct pressure for enough sag. That's why we decided to remove it.
We put 10ml of suspension fluid into the air chamber for lubrication when reassembling.
Tried search, and read the thread 07 66 sl ata setup information, and the posts of Renegade (Thanks, that helped a lot!!), but it was mainly about 66, which has another air chamber in the RC2 side. But 888 doesn't, so I figure it'll be different.
Put the fork back together, pump it up to 100psi.
Result is the fork feels nice and plush with the first 130mm of travel, and we never get it more than 160mm.
So, we put the bike upside down, deflate the fork, opened the damperside foot nut, compress the fork, let the air out and seal it up again.
Tried with hands to compress the fork (when there's very low air pressure in sfa chamber), yes ,we can bottom it out.
Pump it up to 100psi, still counldn't get more than 160mm.
Are we missing anything?
some extra info:
We couldn't buttom out the fork originally when the par is still there with correct pressure for enough sag. That's why we decided to remove it.
We put 10ml of suspension fluid into the air chamber for lubrication when reassembling.
Tried search, and read the thread 07 66 sl ata setup information, and the posts of Renegade (Thanks, that helped a lot!!), but it was mainly about 66, which has another air chamber in the RC2 side. But 888 doesn't, so I figure it'll be different.