Has anyone here rebuilt shocks at home? The braided hose on one of my front shock has been rubbing on a bellowed oil drain and sprung a leak. At a minimum, it will need a new hose plus oil and nitrogen charge. It seems like it makes sense to rebuild it while it's out, but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.
Fox 2.0 remote reservoirs in case that makes any difference.
If you are not trying to build a custom valve stack this can be done at home with one small exception. Custom valving requires a shock dyno to get right.
The only thing NOT easy to do at home is the 3-400psi nitrogen pressure charge. The rest is just cleaning, measuring, reassembly. The hardest thing to do is get small air bubbles out from under the piston when you reinsert it. That can be done by hand, but is a little fiddly.
For the nitrogen charge, you may have a shop near you that can do it. Motorcycle shops may have the right adapters.
I've rebuilt Fox dampers as part of our development process. I needed a special tool to help hold the shock body in a vise (well, it helped a lot) and a nitrogen tank with an appropriate fitting. The folks at Fox had no problem with this, they actually enabled it.
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