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Originally Posted by Bibio
personally i always thought that the rebound was the worst part of the stock forks. hence the pogo effect.
and here was me going to suggest welding up one of the rebound holes. ooohhh well you live and learn.
as to measuring the air gap just use a chopstick or something with a lines marked on it, dip stick in fork and pull out then see how much you are over or under the marks. or go and take out you cars dipstick (if its long enough) and use that.
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You can weld hole up if you want, there is only one rebound hole.
2 things at play, oil viscosity and size of bleed. There is lots of leakage so even with hole welded there is still flow. If you use say 20W with hole there, then you might be able to use 15W with hole welded up.
Yeah lack of rebound is bad with stock parts, but if you make rebound way too firm then it's worse!
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Originally Posted by hongman
Can you elaborate on that bit, just for my intellectual benefit?
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If you have too little rebound the front feels unstable, like it's pumping up and down even in smooth corner.
If you have too much rebound then it will (as bibio says) not recover from one little ripple to next and feel like it is making little jumps out wide in corner. Like understeer, very unnerving.