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Any opinions on Japanese Spare Parts rear shocks with remote resivoir? Price seems OK

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jeff Laurence
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Jeff Laurence

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I like the look of the Aluminum body and Chrome springs-- landed in Canada for around $200.00
Anyone tried them??
 
Jeff, there is a guy with a site chrislivingood.net that has disassembled and evaluated RFY piggyback shocks (these are also sold on ebay $100 or so) and determined they are sufficient in design and materials to function well (see his evaluation, very informative). They are only deficient in the amount and quality of damping oil, little or no nitrogen charge and sometimes wrong sequence in the assembly of the dampening washers. He provides a service (1 week turnaround for a pair) to disassemble, inspect, add new shock oil (correctly, without bubbles) and charge with nitrogen to an accurate psi for $75. If you go the the "shop" pulldown on his site, he has shocks for sale. Just choose color and spring weight options for $128. I don't know if this price includes the rebuild or not (email him). He says once these are set up they are an excellent street shock.
 
Salty Monk (Dan) had a set of those shocks w/o springs that I was able to play around with. When extending/compressing the damper there was a portion of the stroke on one of the shocks with no damping. Something wrong. Maybe they would break in. Not sure. Only way I'd buy a set of those shocks though is if you planned to take them apart and check them out carefully. Or buy send to that rebuilder guy and let him go though them.
 
what i wanna know about these shocks is how to get all the bubbles out of the fluid when going over them.

im interested in a set but i dont know if there is a proper bleed procedure for bladder shocks.

Brian
 
The RFY shock looks like a good way to go if you get it set up properly. I have to say from my own experience that the Hagons I put on my 1978 GS750E work beautifully, and, personally, I don't care for the look of a shock reservoir.
 
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