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Hello. Just noticed there is play in the connection between the shock and the hollow link. How difficult is it to replace the bearings/bushings? Ta 🙂
Easy, just be selective over your bearing supplier 😉
sounds like the bush in the shock eyelet. It's straight forward enough if you can get the old one out. The right tools make it easy. It can be bodged with sockets or two minutes if you take the shock off and pop it into your local bike shop.
Hey' it's pretty easy to do the job you can get a bushing tools of ebay and bush's as well. In saying that what kind of frame is it?
Moggy, if it's the shock bushings you'll need a specialist tool to remove them, it's basically a drift, some LBS's have their own, my LBS is a giant dealer but has made his own drift which handily fits spesh bikes.
you'll also need replacement hardware, you can get the parts from Mojo or BETD and a few others, just tell them your year, make and model, some people swear by the BETD items which apparently last longer, personnaly I go for Fox original parts from Mojo.
You need a vice to press all the bits together. it's not rocket science but takes care, you are dealing with expensive parts !!
If you need bearings, you can find out the numbers required for each pivot point on an fsr on Leisure lakes site and them either order them from LL or get them from a specialist bearing supplier which is a bit cheaper. I'm not an uber bearing expert, but SKF or NKE make decent quality items which don't cost a fortune (NKE about £6 each).
Again you need specialist tools to press fit or remove bearings from fsr frames, I would recommend getting a shop to do this, particularly if you are as ham fisted as I am, you'll only break an alloy frame once...
hope this helps.
Hey moggy mtb
This guy on ebay does tools that are pretty simple to use and sell bushs in packs of 10 as well.
Handy for you any your riding mates, just chip in and buy 10 or 20 bushs and use them when you need to.
ridefree!
I have great bearings and I also have tools and an instrucitonal DVD to show you how to fit the bearings using a vice. Chances are it might just be the bush's though.