I have a 2018 Rocky Mountain Instinct A50 with Fox Float DPS EVOL Performance. I thought I would try to service it myself. I’m not sure how to get the bottom eyelets off to be able to slide the can off the tube. The eyelets are too wide to just slide off but every video I’ve watched doesn’t talk about this. Any advice?
by yaboyre
4 Comments
You have to pull the mounting hardware off of the shock. They shouldn’t be all that tight but you probably can’t pull them by hand.
So the text book way of removing those bearinged eyelets requires a special tool which is a bit on the pricey side. May be a worthwhile investment of you do your own maintenance a lot.
You can get lucky if you carefully use alloy soft jaws and vice with round cut outs in the proper dimension, rotating and pulling upward on the shock. You may need to use a thin punch to add a little “English” by tapping the punch with a hammer at the seam inside the bore where the two eyelets meet. All of this should be done very carefully. Screw the air can back on before manipulating everything of course.
Get s socket that fits in the eyelet. Hammer it out… If you have vice it works best… A larger deeper socket works too…. But you need too be able to get that bushing out
I use a socket extender.
https://preview.redd.it/hxg9qx7je58h1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41407ff4b1ed009faca80e3570b38fecac8b162c
On mine the long narrow part fits through the eyelet and the wider socket part pushes out the bushings. I just tug the narrow part and the bushings fall out.
The one i use is narrower than the picture. I just didnt have a picture of it.