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bazzaboy2010
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 28 Apr 2020    Post subject: Second hand shocks Reply with quote
I have a fes125 08 reg swing and my shock chrome are pitted so I bought some second hand ones. Can I ask are you able to hand push the chrome in a little. Just want to know if they are ok
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Riejufixing
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PostPosted: 16:01 - 28 Apr 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I do not understand the question. Please re-phrase.
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Kawasaki Jimbo
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PostPosted: 18:34 - 28 Apr 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can you compress the spring by hand? Not on a sports 600. Don't know about a lighter bike's shock absorber.
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bazzaboy2010
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PostPosted: 20:50 - 28 Apr 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
Can you compress the spring by hand? Not on a sports 600. Don't know about a lighter bike's shock absorber.


Yes I can compress it not fully but likely to be around a a couple of inch

https://youtu.be/La0KOAhfxdc
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Riejufixing
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PostPosted: 21:12 - 28 Apr 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
bazzaboy2010 wrote:
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
Can you compress the spring by hand? Not on a sports 600. Don't know about a lighter bike's shock absorber.

Yes I can compress it not fully but likely to be around a a couple of inch

https://youtu.be/La0KOAhfxdc

Oh! It's a fork leg!

The shiny chrome bit is called a stanchion ("stanchun"). If the "new" ones are not pitted or bent they will be OK, but I'd check that the forks have the correct amount of lubricant in them before fitting (get rid of the old and put in new). Yes, you should be able to compress them a little, since it's not a heavy bike with bloody great springs in the forks.

Edit: Fork oil seems to be 134ml SAE10W.
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Chuffin Nora
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PostPosted: 21:33 - 28 Apr 2020    Post subject: Re: Second hand shocks Reply with quote
bazzaboy2010 wrote:
are you able to hand push the chrome in a little.

Not from here, no.

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Teflon-Mike
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PostPosted: 11:11 - 29 Apr 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
bazzaboy2010 wrote:
Yes I can compress it not fully but likely to be around a a couple of inch

https://youtu.be/La0KOAhfxdc

a couple of inches?

According to a quick google of specs,it only has three and a half inches of suspension travel up front.... and at least 1/3 of that should be compressed at rest anyway.. so a couple of inches more would be bottoming the suspension out to full travel.

U-tube clip doesn't look like 'a couple of inches... though maybe that's what you tell the missus.... but dont look far 'wrong' could you lift two 15 stone chaps with one hand like that? Thats the soirt of force the spring in the fork is expected to hold up... in a e-stop.

Start again, from the top, what are you trying to 'fix' here?

According to them web-specs, its a 'cartridge' fork, so the chrome bit, as you call it... the stancheon.. is just a tube telescoping inside a slider, in which there's a 'cartridge' damper,probably a bit like the strut on the back door of a hatch-back car, but CSML exploded diagrams seem to suggest a conventional tele..

Exploded diagram? You'll have one omn the work-shop manual, you know the Haynes you dont think you need 'cos you got google on your smurfone! Gowoan.. amaze me, tell us you bought the book, BEFORE you started taking critical bits of motor vehicle apart and asking us incomprehensible questions!
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