2010 36 talas lll. I rebuilt it annually. Even the talas part. It works flawlessly.
I'm selling the bike so I wanted to replace the wipers and put in fresh oil. The talas part is working great. So this year, for the first time ever, I'm not going to rebuild it.
I hook the pump up to the air valve and see its held the 90psi all year.
Released the air through the pump. Take off the compression knobs, loosen the top caps, loosen the 10 and 15mm down bottom and tap them loose. Pull the lowers off, cleaned them out, replaced wipers and foam rings.
Cleaned out the talas side and put the lower air shaft in with 5cc of float fluid. Added 5cc and put the talas upper assembly in and tightened everything up. We're good to go!
I hook up the old shock pump and give it a stroke and I'm @100psi. Wtf? Try a newer pump- 1=100psi! Wtf? Take the talas out and I'm wondering if any float fluid got in the lower air shaft where the pin end of the upper assembly goes in. I pump into the talas while it's out of the fork and in my hand. 1=100psi. Dammit!
Well, I'll rebuild the talas I guess. I get done rebuilding it and it still won't work. The lowers move freely by hand, but 1=100psi.
I wanna see what my options are, so I call Fox and the tech guy is explaining that the talas has fluid in this part that I need a special tool to disssemble... Blah blah blah... I think he's referring to the ll not the lll. I ask to talk to sales about replacing it with the talas 5 or the float. They don't have any floats left and the 5 would be $265! Holy schitt! No thanks!
(in a whispering voice) What can it be?
Ps. I have the answer, but I wanna see if anyone else had this issue or would have figured it out.
I'm selling the bike so I wanted to replace the wipers and put in fresh oil. The talas part is working great. So this year, for the first time ever, I'm not going to rebuild it.
I hook the pump up to the air valve and see its held the 90psi all year.
Released the air through the pump. Take off the compression knobs, loosen the top caps, loosen the 10 and 15mm down bottom and tap them loose. Pull the lowers off, cleaned them out, replaced wipers and foam rings.
Cleaned out the talas side and put the lower air shaft in with 5cc of float fluid. Added 5cc and put the talas upper assembly in and tightened everything up. We're good to go!
I hook up the old shock pump and give it a stroke and I'm @100psi. Wtf? Try a newer pump- 1=100psi! Wtf? Take the talas out and I'm wondering if any float fluid got in the lower air shaft where the pin end of the upper assembly goes in. I pump into the talas while it's out of the fork and in my hand. 1=100psi. Dammit!
Well, I'll rebuild the talas I guess. I get done rebuilding it and it still won't work. The lowers move freely by hand, but 1=100psi.
I wanna see what my options are, so I call Fox and the tech guy is explaining that the talas has fluid in this part that I need a special tool to disssemble... Blah blah blah... I think he's referring to the ll not the lll. I ask to talk to sales about replacing it with the talas 5 or the float. They don't have any floats left and the 5 would be $265! Holy schitt! No thanks!
(in a whispering voice) What can it be?
Ps. I have the answer, but I wanna see if anyone else had this issue or would have figured it out.
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