Rear shock for curvy. Opinions, advice please.

[yorkie_chris]

No. you can only adjust emulators by fishing them out of the forks and adding preload to valve spring.
Rebound adjustment is done by oil weight.

Enlarging compression holes is easy, you just drill them and deburr. Sure it's no harder than fitting socket boxes or whatever

If you need external adjustment you need AK20s which are pricey or GSXR front end.

[Luckypants]

Enlarging the compression holes is in the fitting instructions for the emulators. I'd be annoyed if they didn't follow them! The emulators can only be adjusted by fishing them out of the forks, but that is not so bad.

As an electrician you are a practical bloke, this really is within the capabilities of a DIY mechanic. I'm a computer geek, but I managed it no trouble.

To be honest, i'm more lazy than incompetant. Its because I dont understand air gaps, sag, etc. All these terms are new to me.
I've been looking for a how to with pics, but can't find one anywhere.
My friend is probably more than capable of showing me what to do, but he's out of the country at the moment, and I dont realy have the facilities (maybe tap someone up for the use of their garage).
Or any fellow orgers fancy a nice job with plenty of tea (or stella), whichever is ya poison!

Richie K

Righto, just bought these lovely items:

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_t...All-Categories

http://www.k-tech.uk.com/product_detail.php?id=49

Just need some emulators (from ZADER) and some oil, any recommendations on oil weight?

Thanks

Richie K

[mister c]

If it's any use, I bought an 08 ZX10 shock, I'm 15.5 stone. The shock is standard & I dont have any issues with it at all, best thing I did was get rid of the original one.

[Taipan]

Bunged an 04 ZX10r shock on my curvy teh other week. Huge improvment over teh standard SV one. its nice to have actual damped suspension again, albeit at one end only!

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Closing the rebound hole means that oil has to force / leak it's way past the valve assembly (I think) which slows the rate and so increases damping.

Rebound has almost nothing to do with valve. Oil just flows between two chambers under valve, back and forth. Valve (emulator) has check plate that opens whenever fork is in rebound stroke to refill damper rod for compression stroke.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Enlarging the compression holes is in the fitting instructions for the emulators. I'd be annoyed if they didn't follow them!

Fitting instructions tell you to drill two more holes. Better way is to make existing holes bigger.

Originally Posted by richiekuk

Just need some emulators (from ZADAR) and some oil, any recommendations on oil weight?
Thanks
Richie K

Oil weight will depend on springs you use. With softer springs you use thinner oil. Oil weight will control your rebound and should match spring.
Another factor with oil weight is outside temperature, on cold days thinner oil is better and on hot days thicker.

Here is picture for record. Did not have curvy damper rod handy and used pointy but it is all same thing. Plastic piece on left is hydraulic lock on curvy, on pointy this piece is metal and little different shape.

And here is why we close rebound hole. Black line is fork tube, green square is seal between tube and damper rod and second seal is ring on top of damper rod. This two points are where oil leaks more than we like.

Change the front as well you can use zx6r front or GSXR I believe.

http://canyonchasers.net/gallery/tra...SC01654?full=1 - zx front

http://canyonchasers.net/shop/sv/636-forks.php - how to do it