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I don't think this has ever been discussed yet, so here it is - has anyone tinkered with the stack yet?
I've had a quick look at the damper, and basically the bottom of the MC damper comes off (and that bottom houses both the LSC port adjuster, and floodgate mechanism). After removal, inside the main MC unit (a little way up) is the shimstack. There appears to be a hex head to perhaps unscrew it but it looked too deep to access with a normal socket wrench.
Running a fair amount of LSC (~5 clicks) with the floodgate (blowoff point) backed all the way off, the fork still wants to spike on high speed braking bumps - which I suspect is very likely to the fact that AFTER the nice easy blowoff, the oil has to pass through the "blackbox speedstack" too. IMO that makes the floodgate adjuster somewhat redundant, as the whole point is so that compression damping can regress after a certain speed threshold.
It wouldn't hurt to can the shimstack all together imo, or at least shim it much more lightly - and i'd like to hear about it if anyone has given it a shot (performance results would be nice too)
Thanks, Udi
I don't think this has ever been discussed yet, so here it is - has anyone tinkered with the stack yet?
I've had a quick look at the damper, and basically the bottom of the MC damper comes off (and that bottom houses both the LSC port adjuster, and floodgate mechanism). After removal, inside the main MC unit (a little way up) is the shimstack. There appears to be a hex head to perhaps unscrew it but it looked too deep to access with a normal socket wrench.
Running a fair amount of LSC (~5 clicks) with the floodgate (blowoff point) backed all the way off, the fork still wants to spike on high speed braking bumps - which I suspect is very likely to the fact that AFTER the nice easy blowoff, the oil has to pass through the "blackbox speedstack" too. IMO that makes the floodgate adjuster somewhat redundant, as the whole point is so that compression damping can regress after a certain speed threshold.
It wouldn't hurt to can the shimstack all together imo, or at least shim it much more lightly - and i'd like to hear about it if anyone has given it a shot (performance results would be nice too)
Thanks, Udi
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