I have the lowers off, I let all the air out and even removed the valve core.
There is still some pressure pushing the air-side piston rod to full extension. It's not exactly a firm pressure, I mean I can push it all the way with hand force, but should it be there? I assume there is pressure in the negative spring, but shouldn't it suck up the rod, not push it down.
Is this something that may be reducing my small bump compliance?
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
This is why SRAM should drop the air negative spring and go with a negative coil like suntour does. All those extra o rings adding to stiction
My durolux air system has 1 o ring total. True story. Anyways…
Shouldn't the negative spring depressurize when you release air from the main chamber?
Pikes have a little dimple in the stanchion wall above the air piston when fully extended to balance pos and neg air pressures. I'm no engineer, typically neg spring should act to compress the shock, and pos spring is what extends it.
Did you follow the MBR service video where they tighten the foot nuts with the fork compressed?
Don't do this! You end up with a secondary negative spring.
You might find that the old cable tie down under the seal trick works.
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