Soo one day I decided to add a spacer into my shock and noticed that the bottom out bumper is other way around with the washer. After that I wrote to the the bike shop that was servicing the shock and they sent it to the the company that does the service.
And now I got the reply. They say that's because I was bottoming out so often the bumper went trough the washer (?) but this sounds unreal to me how the bumper this big can go through almost half a millimeter tolerance. Maybe I'm missing something?
by verbalius
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They said that the bumper squeezed through the washer? That’s ridiculous. From your story, it sounds like it was recently serviced? I would assume they just reassembled it backwards.
I have seen a small oring go through a gap like that but there is no way that bumper was assembled correctly.
That’s the “oops, we f’d up but don’t want to have to redo our work on our dime” answer. There is absolutely no way for that plastic bumper to squeeze through the tiny annulus between the shaft OD and washer ID. Physically impossible without it becoming a pile of dust on the other side.
Physically impossible without absolutely shredding the bumper, Improper assembly on the last service no doubt