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Originally Posted by marcel
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Just watched this whilst building my own big bore shocks, i'm following what he's doing to the tee but.. when he's bled the air by compressing the shaft/piston with the cap still loose he then almost fully compresses the shaft then does up the cap, job done. When i do EXACTLY the same thing ie, i start doing the cap up fully the shaft starts to come back out so that when the cap is fully tight i end up with 100% rebound when i only want 0-20% rebound.
I simply cannot get these set up to give the desired rebound without emptying out enough oil to prevent the shaft rebounding but this is when i end up with air in the shock & a resulting nasty feeling action ie, the feeling that there is an air pocket.
The problem seems to be the thread is so precise, almost self sealing that the when i start to do up the cap the air isn't able to escape from the thread thus causing the shaft to rebound as i do it up, i'm just unsure how to overcome it..