I've been able to ride the FSR from my parking to work (2km) and realized the Cane Creek dampener does not work as expected. It holds the air fine, but it sticks on the first few mm of travel and moves too easy for the rest oft the travel.
Gladly I found a very good thread on how to service that part over on mtbr. So I quickly copied the text to "our"
wiki so it does not get lost. I'll decorate it with some pictures later. I am so grateful to that user "TeamTwentyFour" for writing this! I guess I'll have to register to mtbr forums and write thy guy a message.
Later I tried to take a closer look into my dampener and too some pics, too
This is the "beast"
First release the pressure and take the valve out:
Remove the two adjustment screws. (Manual says not to do that...) They turn rather harsh at the end of their thread. Don't worry. That is just those little o-rings pressing through the hole. It will get hard to get them back in, so I'll have to consider whether or not this was a good idea...
The main body lock ring should come off easily. It usually is only hand tightened.
Underneath there is a Teflon ring, holding a few seals. Just slide it off, together with the lock ring.
The rest of the shock can just be pulled apart.
On the pic above you can already see the defective o-ring inside the white Teflon part.
Aaand again - fire up the browser and order some more seals :roll:
Seems I'm the "drive to the hardware store once for every single screw" type of guy :facepalm:
The FSX forks did keep up well. No oil leakage to be seen anywhere any more. Phew!
