Fox Racing Shock Air Sleeve Maintenance Guide

The following information may guide you for the Fox Racing Shock Air Sleeve Maintenance. It contains removing, cleaning, inspecting, greasing and reassembling for the routine maintenance of your Fox Racing Shock. The parts diagram of the device below may help you understanding the guide.

Fox Racing Shock Air Sleeve Maintenance Guide are described as follows:

1. For removing shock from the bike, clamp shaft eyelet in a vise with soft jaws being careful not to crush the air valve, RP3 lever, or rebound knob. Slide a screwdriver or punch through the body eyelet to keep the air sleeve from coming off the body. Turning counter clockwise and slide it down the body will loose the air sleeve, remove screwdriver or punch and remove air sleeve from shock.
2. Use the parts cleaner to clean inside of the air sleeve whilst inspect the seal and bearing inside, replace if needed.
3. For greasing maintenance, lightly lube the shaft eyelet O-ring and shaft eyelet threads with FLOAT Fluid or Multi-purpose Lithium based grease. Lube the body seal and body bearing, leaving a reservoir of lube above the body bearing. Grease the air sleeve seal, air sleeve bearing, and air sleeve wiper lightly. Slide the air sleeve over the body until the air sleeve wiper is at the end of the body then leave unthreaded.
4. Dry bushings and reducers. Install reducers in eyelet bushings and install shock in bike. Carefully compress shock until you can screw on the air sleeve.

Please refer to the following manual guide for complete Fox Racing Shock Air Sleeve Maintenance (source: foxracingshox.com).