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Had my Lyriks for two years now. I do a lower service roughly every 50 hours or 6 months ish.
Do I actually need to do a damper service. Not sure I want to do that one myself and it's so expensive to get sent away. And even if I wanted to do myself the kit itself is most of the way there
Can I happily carry one keeping things smooth with frequent lower leg services or will I wreck it by ignoring the rest?
Easy
I've done a few oil changes on the damper , swapped oil out for a lighter one. Jtech say oil from lower leg can get pushed into damper bladder and stretch and damage it. If you search on Instagram you can find. So a simple oil change would restore the correct oil amount and clean oil is never a bad thing.
Oil change can be done with basic tools just takes a bit longer to get air out of oil.
RockShox fork dampers are pretty easy to service, and fairly minimal specialist tools. Put your serial number into the sram tech site and have a look at the service manual, it has a tool list, step by step with pictures, probably lots of videos on youtube now.
Just need to be clean and follow the instructions step by step.
The current rockshox seal kits are not a full service anyway as they dont supply bladders, compression seals etc anymore, its normally just the seal head.
I vacuum bleed them, but you can do it with a syringe.
i change the oil in my damper. i have a funnel that screws into the top. it’s pretty easy on these a formula forks.
i’m not sure i’ve got the patience/nerve/skill to fully dismantle the damper, though.