I said the ones under the stacks, but I was also thinking of something else...Not to be rude but bit confused on how the Boxxer Team has the same wavy spring on the air piston as its a COIL fork?
Disagree... I'm with thrillseeka on this one. There's actually a noticeable difference, and I couldn't care less about justifying anything right now (as you know haha) and I've also had at least 2 of each fork.
You were the one crapping on about Teams, don't try and blame me for sidetracking the thread! I think it's entirely relevant anyway given that people suggested getting Teams and you said not to bother for this particular reason.
You do get more stiction in the WC when the whole FORK flexes and binds the already-tight o-rings hard against the shaft and stanchion however. Noticed what a loose fit the MoCo rebound pistons are in the stanchion? There's a reason for that. The plastic isolator on the spring still isn't a tight fit on the stanchion like an o-ring, nor does all of it press at once (at most you'd be looking at 2 coil-thicknesses), and that's assuming the part of the spring rubbing is the part that's covered in the plastic to begin with.
the Boxxer stanchions are 32mm so maybe the piston is 28mm. The Totem stanchions are 40mm, so piston 36mm. This gives the totem a surface area that is 1,65 times bigger then the boxxer. If you multiply this by 2 because you have 2 sides on the piston then you have 3,3. My pressure is 50PSI times 3,3 gives 165PSI and that is roughly what you are using.
The air piston is the top white object on the assembly with a black o ring on it. On top is the wavy spring, when this wears it looses spring tension an the air piston can get play up and down, the clunk noise you hear is play from the air piston moving up an down on the assembly. Play can also develop on the bottom thread hole of the assembly where the footnut bolts into, as it is pressed in an sometimes can come loose an can also cause the sound you are describing. Its all a matter of elimination. If you aren't confident take your fork to your lbs and get them to carry out the repair. All in all probably easier just to install a new solo air piston assembly.
I was told to do this also, instead placing a spring washer place one O-ring there, but Rockshox said you had to use the wavy washer, becuase the Air piston needed play in order for the air to bleed from the Postitive to the Negative Chamber. I tried using 2 wavy washers, but that didnt do anythig either.
Its a start!!!guess you where right in my case.
Yes it does...
Same with me, except I think I can top a bit more oil. Its weird. I always fill up the Motion control side with 150CC, but the last time I checked it It was down by 10-15CC also. Weird.
- http://www.peterverdonedesigns.com/bikesuspension.htm
Can you really hear it while riding?Granted my BoXXer is a 05, it never made that much noise before...to me it's worse than any chain slap noise. almost makes me want to get either a coil or another fork all together.lthumbsdown:
I know alot of You people don't agree with this state side, but in the UK i would say at least 90% of riders i have met with the WC boxxer have Got the internals changed to team...They just have to many problems!!Hey Luc,
Maybe you can upgrade to the team!
I had a TEAM, and it felt great, but it was to soft for my liking. I wasn`t able to get a stiffer spring so i bought 08 WC.
Out of the box it felt much better than the team. I tried a lot of my friends wc`s and neither worked like mine.
As I wanted the fork to keep working great, I went and took it apart, to grease up the lowers. Put it back together, and BOMB!!!! The fork worked like crap.
Tried some things, to make it better, but it got only worse.
So my fork went to the world`s to be repaired by pro`s
So the point of the story is: If the fork is working OK, leave it like it is:>
To get back to your problem. Both my team and wc had the top out clicking noise.
Maybe I missed it, but did you try: Before you bolt down the bottom bolt on the compression leg, you push the stanchion all the way in, so all the air goes out, and then you tighten the bolt. It makes kinda of a vacuum, so it should soften the toping out.
Sorry form my blabering.....
well I've pretty much tried everything, so why not try this. I have a plethora of oil, so that's not a problem.
I can FINALLY 100% confirm that the play were the Punch holes are on the Lower Part of the Solo Assembly Rod is in fact where the clicking sound is coming from!!! Its not the washers losing tension over time or not enough oil. I got a new Solo Air assembly because my old one cracked right at the punch holes ( probably because of riding it with it separated for so long and eventually gave in ), and still the clicking remained in my New Solo Air Assembly...Lame. With the help of Acadian, I re-punched the holes, and the clicking sound is 100% gone!!
So here it is Re-Punch the holes to prevent play at the Bottom part, and the Fork will not click!!! After a year of this crap I have to say Iam very happy
This was for the Boxxer wc...
