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I just pulled the lowers off my Pike 454 Air U-Turn, and a loose circlip fell out, along with a bent spacer (bottom out bumper?).
It's quite a small circlip, about 15mm, and I can't see anywhere that it might have come from. This worries me.
The air spring is still in the uppers, as is the rebound cart.
It's a long shot, but any ideas?
It's likely an internal clip that prevents the air 'lower' from coming out of the upper ( I'm talking about the internals here).
Have a look 'up inside' the internal - is there a circlip there? Try to yank the air shaft out. The should be a clip there preventing that.
DrP
There's no circlip in the air side, but I don't see how it could hold anything in. It's too small to secure the air spring inside the stanchion.
It certainly did something
i think he means securing the thinner pipe [ the neg chamber] so that it cannot be withdrawn from the upper air chamber
Get in SRAM tech drawings and see what is missing
It's not off the top of the blue compression-adjuster/lockout is it?
Yes the should be a small circlip on the air side if memory serves. I was in some earlier this week. Big circlip damper side, small one air side..
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Brilliant, problem solved! I was expecting it to be a big one like on the damper side.
I've stuck it on the bottom of the air spring. There seems to be a groove for something to sit in. It's now home to a circlip.
Thanks a lot guys!