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Recently i bought a broken reverb (non-stealth) off someone to rebuild as a project. It's a V1 post (silver collar), so it was out of warranty.
The top cap was flogged so I replaced it, and I thought that doing a full bleed of everything (post internals + hose) and putting a new seal kit on it would make it good as new - wrong!
There is a major problem with it that I have become obsessed with fixing and just can't - it sinks slowly under load, not just 20mm or so, but will sink the entire travel length. Takes about 5 minutes to go from full extension to the bottom. When i push the button on the bars it pops back up. It's like there is a problem with the valve at the top of the post and it is opening when i load the post by sitting on it.
I have replaced this valve, put new o-rings on it, played around with oil heights, nothing will stop it from slowly sinking. Can't find a similar problem on the net anywhere. I've bled the post internals three times, changed the oil height for the valve around 10 times (put in too much, too little , just right), but it still sinks! Followed the rockshox videos exactly.
I've burned through alot of fluid, time and now money trying to fix this. Is the next step throwing it in the bin?
The top cap was flogged so I replaced it, and I thought that doing a full bleed of everything (post internals + hose) and putting a new seal kit on it would make it good as new - wrong!
There is a major problem with it that I have become obsessed with fixing and just can't - it sinks slowly under load, not just 20mm or so, but will sink the entire travel length. Takes about 5 minutes to go from full extension to the bottom. When i push the button on the bars it pops back up. It's like there is a problem with the valve at the top of the post and it is opening when i load the post by sitting on it.
I have replaced this valve, put new o-rings on it, played around with oil heights, nothing will stop it from slowly sinking. Can't find a similar problem on the net anywhere. I've bled the post internals three times, changed the oil height for the valve around 10 times (put in too much, too little , just right), but it still sinks! Followed the rockshox videos exactly.
I've burned through alot of fluid, time and now money trying to fix this. Is the next step throwing it in the bin?