Dampening Rod

[cowboyup3371]

Salty Monk explained how I should drill out the holes in my dampening rod to install the emulators once I get those in next week. However, the question came up as to which holes I am supposed to drill.

In this picture:



the bottom holes (left side of picture) go all the way through the rod and I assume are the ones I drill, correct?

What do the two small top ones (right side), that do not go all the way through the rod, do? Am I supposed to drill those as well?

[salty_monk]

Definitely the bottom ones out to 5/8" and you'll have to drill an extra set as well (you drill them perpendicular to the set immediately below them).

The top ones are rebound damping holes and are left as stock.

[TheCafeKid]

The point in doing this, I'm assuming, is basically to eliminate any damping by the damping rod since you're using the emulators in their place? I've never installed them myself so I'm asking..

[salty_monk]

Yes but on the compression circuit only. The damper rod still controls rebound damping and you adjust that by changing oil weight.

Basically if 15w felt good before it'll prob feel fine after as well.

[salty_monk]

http://www.racetech.com/HTML_FILES/DampingRodForks.HTML

[cowboyup3371]

Thanks for the info Dan. Sadly, I have no clue what the PO had in there before so I'm starting out at 15w.