rusty360 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Anyone had any luck rebuilding these? Or what oil to put in them? One is leaking in my anglebox,I've got a spare pair but wanted to give them a birthday before install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I was reading about this the other day on a zephyr forum and someone said drain them, clean them and put hypoid 90 oil in to make them a bit stiffer.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 9 hours ago, rusty360 said: Anyone had any luck rebuilding these? Or what oil to put in them? One is leaking in my anglebox,I've got a spare pair but wanted to give them a birthday before install. Leaking out the shaft seal? For minors it's a case of 10ton press to remove the arm from the shaft, pop out the frost plug in the back, machine the housing for modern seals and refill. The thicker oil will work for a little while. But in a couple years they are Gona really leak. Usually it's easier, faster, cheaper to exchange your old ones for already rebuilt ones. * Reread and sounds like you have a potentially good one. Open top cap and drain bolt. Hand pump the lever arm to pump the old oil out. Top up with your flavour of monograde sae oil. For minors I think it was 40. Again for minors you can bump that up to 90 for racecars but the thoughts are that this puts more stress on the valves and will eventually damage the shock till it bypasses internally. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleeektoy Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 http://www.sasgroup.nz/ I used these guys years ago - not sure if they still rebuild them now. They may know who does it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 A poster on JalopyJournal.com commented "sent them to Barry at Autolign in Christchurch . Rebuilt and back within a week" https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/lever-shock-rebuild-down-under-nz.1079345/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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