My 2010 Float 36 isn't getting full travel. I opened it up to adjust for 160mm travel, and it just stops at ~140mm. It was suggested that I pull it apart again to remeasure the oil levels, which I replaced last night, but didn't solve the problem. I never opened the compression side, so this ia happening on the air leg. Help please.
2010 Float 36 not getting full travel
- Thread starter stoney
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might be an imbalance between the + and - air chambers
use the force.
wait duh no neg air. try here:
http://www.ridefox.com/fox_tech_center/owners_manuals/010/eng/index.html
http://www.ridefox.com/fox_tech_center/owners_manuals/010/eng/index.html
No float fork made before 2012 ever got full travel with any kind of real (rideable) air pressure.
True story.
I've owned like 7 of the damn things.
True story.
I've owned like 7 of the damn things.
Basically this. I cut down the air piston shaft on a a few customers' forks to increase the volume a bit (having a lathe in a bike shop was awesome) but that's about the only thing I can think of to fix it.
Try it now!
F**king Fox. 
Take the 20mm black spacer under the air piston out.
i'll take 80% of travel with proper damping over 100% travel with damping that's as reliable as a crack dealerF**king Fox.
fo realz
You know what's weird though? How shltty my boxxer was coupled with how completely freakin awesome the two totems I've owned have been.
But yeah.....I've had a bunch of fox air forks that work great. They just never get that last 3/4 to half inch of squishy. The ramp up to that weird pressure lock is much more preferable to a truly bottoming fork any day of the week.
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It was fine from the time I got it back from Push, until I opened it up.
Ya think I didn't already take it out as part of upping the travel?
I'm not complaining (let me restate: after the first one, I bought like SIX more over the last 8 years). That's just what they do. Ain't no thang.
Burp your damper. What did push do to it?
Well, the need for constant maintenance makes up for it.
Call push and tell them?
Probably a bad o-ring that is bleeding to much or to little air into the +/- chamber
You got a float fork not made this year?
Stick a zip tie on one of the stanchions. Go for a ride. Measure your travel.
That's what we're talking about.
I have a 2012 fox 32 150 on my bike, and to be honest, I still run it because of the way it feels at the end of its travel. It does not even use the last inch of travel.........ever. But it ramps up awesome, and I can't smack the goat urine out of anything on the trail and it will keep on going. Flexing and dancing around, but motoring on none the less.
I have a 2012 float 36 RLC that also would never get full travel, even at air pressures well below the prescribed pressure for my weight. Had PUSH rebuild it and install a high volume piston kit which has solved the issue, although it still ramps up pretty hard at the very end.
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They got this new 36mm one out. You should try it. It's pretty stiff.
it's the audi/vw of the fork world?
i called in sick that day...
No because going from a 32 on my trail bike to a Fox 40 on my Dh bike gives me huge cantaloupe balls from the added stiffness. I can't even sit down.
Truth be told, I want a 36 for my bike.
On point; I never felt like I was getting full travel out of my 36 OR 40. I pulled the top cap on my 40 tonight and found out the previous owner sold it to me set at 7.5".
I'll change it when it's time to do an oil change.
I'll change it when it's time to do an oil change.
Bring the socket with you tomorrow.
Stare at least 100 feet ahead and keep your coward prongs off the fvcking brakes.
It's not damping.
Fox made the air spring chambers too short. You could literally pull out the damper and chuck it aside and you still would not get full travel. It's the air spring.
Trust me on this.
Fox made the air spring chambers too short. You could literally pull out the damper and chuck it aside and you still would not get full travel. It's the air spring.
Trust me on this.
I had a 36 float that lost travel. Even with no air in the spring it would lock out at about 100mm into its travel.
It turned out that the damper cartridge was locking up at that point as oil had got past the bladder and would not let the bladder compress fully.
When I was in there fixing that I also reduced the bottom out protect in the cartridge which end helped the fork to use more of its travel.
It turned out that the damper cartridge was locking up at that point as oil had got past the bladder and would not let the bladder compress fully.
When I was in there fixing that I also reduced the bottom out protect in the cartridge which end helped the fork to use more of its travel.
i found yer problem
Did any oil get into the spring cartridge? My Revelation has a funny habit of sucking up lube oil into the negative air chamber and reducing travel.
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then you need to change the o-rings
Time to drill some speed holes!
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Its due for a rebuild soon. Gonna reduce the travel while I'm at it. Blasphemy!
This.
Forgot about that, both my 36s & 32s have passed oil from the lowers into the airspring.