I haven’t seen this previously posted. Sorry if I missed it.
After watching Fred’s DVD about the rear shock and preload assembly, I’m wondering about something.
Since the piston in the pre-load cylinder only has a narrow ring to seal the oil into the bottom of the cylinder, wouldn’t it be a good idea to relieve pressure on this ring by lowering the adjustment to 0 whenever you store the bike for a while? Maybe even over night?
I don’t know how the numbers work out, but there must be several (many) hundreds of pounds of pressure in that cylinder when the oil is trying to hold up the bike, vs. 0 pounds of pressure when the setting is all the way down (to 0).
If this is correct, then it seems like setting the pre-load to ‘0’ whenever the bike is stored, would have a significant effect on how long you could go before needing to add more oil to the pre-load adjuster. Also seems like setting the pre-load to 0 while the bike is stored would keep the ‘working section’ of the walls of the cylinder well lubricated and less prone to leaking later.
Is my understanding of now the pre-load works correct?
After watching Fred’s DVD about the rear shock and preload assembly, I’m wondering about something.
Since the piston in the pre-load cylinder only has a narrow ring to seal the oil into the bottom of the cylinder, wouldn’t it be a good idea to relieve pressure on this ring by lowering the adjustment to 0 whenever you store the bike for a while? Maybe even over night?
I don’t know how the numbers work out, but there must be several (many) hundreds of pounds of pressure in that cylinder when the oil is trying to hold up the bike, vs. 0 pounds of pressure when the setting is all the way down (to 0).
If this is correct, then it seems like setting the pre-load to ‘0’ whenever the bike is stored, would have a significant effect on how long you could go before needing to add more oil to the pre-load adjuster. Also seems like setting the pre-load to 0 while the bike is stored would keep the ‘working section’ of the walls of the cylinder well lubricated and less prone to leaking later.
Is my understanding of now the pre-load works correct?