Hello everyone, I write from Italy, I found your forum looking for information on the maintenance of our beloved lefty ... I decided to register as I see people very prepared in the maintenance of our fork.
I have a Scalpel Carbon 2 of (2018) with Lefty 2.0 and 2spring native editing.
I purchased the following Tools:
-Cannondal Castle Slider Tool, 40mm, KH198
-Cannondale Headshok Shaft Clamp Tool, 16mm, Lefty 2.0, KH135
-Cannondale KH127 / Tool Outer Cap 36mm for Lefty 2.0 / SuperMax
-r.s.p. Slick Kick Special Grease 50 g Tube
-r.s.p. Lefty Service Kit
-2Spring Universal 100Hr Service Seal Kit Code: CK5407U00OS
In my possession I have dynamometers etc. ..
What I miss are drawings / videos on where to replace the Orings to be included in Kit CK5407U00OS
Question - please don't be offended. Do you understand how the solo air spring works? Do you understand how the 2spring solo air spring works?
If you don't, please don't dick about with your lefty and get a pro to sort it. It will be cheaper in the long run.
If you do, happy days.
OK.
Thinking about the 2.0, and working downwards, if you aren't re-building the damper the o-rings you will do are
1. Big one on the main nut at the top
2. Upper head seal, outer
3. upper head seal, inner (need the bullet tool to do this safely)
4. 2-spring: shaft end
5. 2-spring: main piston
6. 2-spring: valve
7. Shrader plug assembly
This diagram is useful for understanding how 2spring works and the seals involved.
You have to be very careful with where to grease when it comes to 2spring. Look in the lefty tech thread for details.
Mendon will be along in a moment to correct me on the above, but the tl;dr is
- don't try to fix it if you don't know how, it will make things worse
- the kit you have covers all bases and you only use a selection of the parts included
The decision to revise the fork autonomously is given by the fact that I think I have good maintenance skills in the face of years of experience in the field of industrial maintenance, in addition: the bike in 6 months has traveled about 3000 km and 100000 meters in altitude on many technical paths ...
An estimate of the mechanic I did do ... and amounts to c.a € 140 ... and the bike must remain still 10 days ..... too ..... in both cases ...
I thought that if I do the maintenance alone ... in 1 day I do everything .... and 6 months in 6 months I repaint the equipment.
You gave me an excellent detail: the present orings are not all necessary ... this was what confused my ideas ... now it is definitely clearer ... so I will totally replace: 10 components ... that "split "of the 2spring composition I had already found it ... if I had not found further documentation I would have replaced those and just ...
I can't see the photo, but it's used to 'safely' push the damper rod back through the air chamber top seal part once the small inner o-ring in the top seal has been replaced.
That's the fella, but it's not used to put the o-ring inside the Upper Air Seal - it's used to open up the small o-ring in the upper air seal and safely progress the damper shaft through it, when putting the upper air seal back on the damper shaft after its o-rings have been replaced. The guy in the video you posted above does a demo.
The problem is that I am looking for a seller who can give me the bearings of the headset but the enduro B543 2RS - ABEC 3 MAX ... the problem is that I do not find who sells both .....
I've not tried it without, but it doesn't strike me as the hardest tool to fabricate or improvise - a suitably sized and shaped pen lid might do it for example. All it needs to do is gently, safely expand the o-ring ID > shaft OD, then drop the o-ring over the shaft.
Of course it is complicated to understand the correct tools to use ... I can not find a design with everything you need for a Lefty 2.0 with 2Spring ... the only one I see is this:
and inside there are also the tools of the old lefty ... a mess ...
Tempo fa cannondaleExperts aveva un kit oring abbreviato per le 100 ore solo aria: qui trovi lo schema di quelli che vanno sostituiti per fare solo la parte aria:
Long ago cannondaleExperts had a shortened oring kit for 100 hours air: here you find the scheme of those that must be replaced to do only the air part:
Where are included many O-rings not necessary for my lefty .... it would be useful to know BEFORE you disassemble everything ... the size of those I need in order to prepare them
Non so te ma io con 50 euri ci compro oring per revisionare 50 lefty; comunque l'importante è la lubrificazione frequente di oring ed il lavaggio dei cuscinetti boccola in teflon. Falla ogni 50 ore ci vuole un attimo con alcool isopropilico e olio forcelle da 20wt. Come grasso oring uso un Prep fett manitou.
I do not know about you but with 50 euros I buy oring to service 50 lefty; however the important thing is the frequent lubrication of oring and the washing of the teflon bushing and bearings. Every 50 hours, isoproly alcool and 20wt shock oil: takes a moment. Oring grease I use a Prep fett manitou.
This is because I noticed that when I emptied the telescope from the cleaning liquid it came out VERY dirty ... but I had no more liquid ... it would be better to have more ... but I don't like buying so many kits .... I would like a 1 or + liter tank of detergent .... advice?
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