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Shock Adjustment Help - Fox Shox DSC
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Posted by: RonJ

Hello everyone,
Can anyone pin point this issue? It's driving me crazy. The left a-arm sits higher then the right. The pictures explain everything, let me know your thoughts...

Thanks,
-Ron

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Posted by: number5

Lets say that your frame has never been tweaked. Your a arms were made by a robot. Your caster,camber, and toe is perfect I would blame it on your shock.

Posted by: RonJ

Anyone else have any other comments?

Posted by: Clayman

1. Take the shocks off teh bike and measure the extended eye to eye length with a tape measure.

Posted by: number5

Im thinking your shocks are perfect and your arms are not. With the front of your bike off the ground. Hang a plumb dropped from the center of top shock mount. Measure from the bottom shock mount to the hanging string. This is if your shocks are exact length uncompressed.

Posted by: 400exrider707

Honestly from the pics I cant even see anything wrong.

Posted by: K_Fulk

I don't notice it, but are your main air chamber pressures equal?

Posted by: quad97

check the air pressure in all four tires and make sure that there is not a paddle on the ground on one side in the rear while the other rear tire is resting on an opening between the paddles. check the air in your shocks with the front end jacked up to make sure they are the same.

Posted by: sammy5x

The Fox Shox have an auto bypass built into the main air chamber that regulates how much air gets bled off main and into the secondary negative air chamber. The negative air chamber assists in the top out of the shock. Think of it as two balloons pushing against one another. Yes, there is an internal "top out" coil spring but as these shocks are of course air sprung, they are temperature sensative.That being said as your shock builds heat the air chamber pressure will increase from the heat causing stiction. That is why the main air chamber has a built in bypass. Now if your bypas is faulty, then too much pressure will be diverted to the negative chamber causing it to pull the shock shorter. It is a common problem with their MTB shocks that use the same technology.

Posted by: FoxHondaRider

are those the shocks where you can change the ride height by puting air into them with an air compressor? If so do the seals ever break?