I'm sorry if this has been posted before, I've done the search and not really found a conclusion to the issue I have so hence the new thread.
I have an 08 Revelation Dual-Air (bought in Jul 08) that has been working fine until very recently. A friend was home from the US over Christmas and I let him use my HT with the Rev on it. With him being heavier than me, I pumped the positive and negative pressures up to the recommended settings for his weight (didn't have the time to be playing about to get the exact/best pressures so went with RS's recommendations). This led to 2 problems.
Here's what I did in case the problem is here. I pumped the positive chamber up to ~150 first and then went to increase the negative to the same. When I disconnected the pump from the negative valve there was oil after getting into the pump from the valve - according to a post I read here this is normal (if anyone thinks otherwise let me know). I found this strange as this has never happened before (although I've never pumped the chambers to that kind of pressure (~150) before either) on either this fork or my previous Reba.
I wasn't too worried about this but I am more worried about the second problem. :eekster:
When my friend went back, I went about setting the fork up for me again. I dumped some air out of the negative chamber first and watched the fork extend, then dropped the pressure in the positive chamber. This time, I got some oil in the pump from the positive chamber. I was a bit more worried now and I checked that the fork was working as it had in the past. I finished setting up the +/- pressures and I went for a ride on my usual trails. The ride went fine and I was happy again with the fork.
However, when taking the bike out of the car a few hours after the spin, I noticed a leak around the top of the right side leg around by the floodgate and poploc compression knobs. :madmax: When I now try and lockout the fork using the Poploc, the fork won't lock out. If I adjust the gold floodgate knob it doesn't seem to have any effect on the fork. :eekster:
Do I have a problem with the oil coming from the positive/negative valves? What's wrong with the Motion Control/right side leg?
I bought the fork from a big online retailer here, should I try something with it myself or do I just send it back to them since it's still under warranty?
Sorry for the long winded story but I just wanted to give all the facts so I can get the best reply.
I have an 08 Revelation Dual-Air (bought in Jul 08) that has been working fine until very recently. A friend was home from the US over Christmas and I let him use my HT with the Rev on it. With him being heavier than me, I pumped the positive and negative pressures up to the recommended settings for his weight (didn't have the time to be playing about to get the exact/best pressures so went with RS's recommendations). This led to 2 problems.
Here's what I did in case the problem is here. I pumped the positive chamber up to ~150 first and then went to increase the negative to the same. When I disconnected the pump from the negative valve there was oil after getting into the pump from the valve - according to a post I read here this is normal (if anyone thinks otherwise let me know). I found this strange as this has never happened before (although I've never pumped the chambers to that kind of pressure (~150) before either) on either this fork or my previous Reba.
I wasn't too worried about this but I am more worried about the second problem. :eekster:
When my friend went back, I went about setting the fork up for me again. I dumped some air out of the negative chamber first and watched the fork extend, then dropped the pressure in the positive chamber. This time, I got some oil in the pump from the positive chamber.
I was a bit more worried now and I checked that the fork was working as it had in the past. I finished setting up the +/- pressures and I went for a ride on my usual trails. The ride went fine and I was happy again with the fork.However, when taking the bike out of the car a few hours after the spin, I noticed a leak around the top of the right side leg around by the floodgate and poploc compression knobs. :madmax: When I now try and lockout the fork using the Poploc, the fork won't lock out. If I adjust the gold floodgate knob it doesn't seem to have any effect on the fork.
:eekster: Do I have a problem with the oil coming from the positive/negative valves? What's wrong with the Motion Control/right side leg?
I bought the fork from a big online retailer here, should I try something with it myself or do I just send it back to them since it's still under warranty?
Sorry for the long winded story but I just wanted to give all the facts so I can get the best reply.
