Steering dampner setting??

[Nick JacksonMember]

When the setting is to light to notice at a stand still do you still have a damping effect on big hits ?

[GregMember]

Yes it will Nick because of the valving. Inside oil is being pushed through the holes that make up the valve body it goes through the holes easy when its slow moving with very little resistance because of the slow movement of the oil. When you have a big hit the oil is then trying to be forced through the same holes in a hurry and wont all go through at once, thus its slower to go through thus slowing the bars. Hope that makes sense tried to keep it simple.

At Finke I saw them draining the 2.5 weight oil out and putting 50 and 90 weight :ohmy:

TB

[scott bockingMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Yes it will Nick because of the valving. Inside oil is being pushed through the holes that make up the valve body it goes through the holes easy when its slow moving with very little resistance because of the slow movement of the oil. When you have a big hit the oil is then trying to be forced through the same holes in a hurry and wont all go through at once, thus its slower to go through thus slowing the bars. Hope that makes sense tried to keep it simple.

At Finke I saw them draining the 2.5 weight oil out and putting 50 and 90 weight :ohmy:

TB

So it works on the same principal as your suspension?

STM

[GregMember]

Thats exactly how they work Scott

[Nick JacksonMember]

Thanks for the breakdown on the dampener TB makes much more sense now and should now be much useable!
I’ll give it a workout this weekend with Scott in my backyard !

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