steering damper
Road Captain
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 508
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From: Idaho Panhandle
Will do!!
on another note- earlier on in this thread i spoke about powdercoating it so it blended in better. somone said that it may not be a good idea because it would hold the heat in and may cause the o rings to fail. well i took my bike to the track and gave the steering damper a real good workout, it was barley even warm to the touch little lone hot enough to make an o ring fail....so im gonna say that powdercoating is just fine.
edit, loner 888 reading back it was your buddy that said not to paint it cause it would hold in heat? Does yours get hot while riding? maybe the different metals holf/transfer the heat better/worse but mine doesnt get hot :S
on another note- earlier on in this thread i spoke about powdercoating it so it blended in better. somone said that it may not be a good idea because it would hold the heat in and may cause the o rings to fail. well i took my bike to the track and gave the steering damper a real good workout, it was barley even warm to the touch little lone hot enough to make an o ring fail....so im gonna say that powdercoating is just fine.
edit, loner 888 reading back it was your buddy that said not to paint it cause it would hold in heat? Does yours get hot while riding? maybe the different metals holf/transfer the heat better/worse but mine doesnt get hot :S
Cruiser
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 231
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From: Canada
Lol funny u say that,I'm an engineer, and still don't know how the fluid inside would hold heat and not transfer it to the metal casing unless it's build with STRICT tempature tolerances. Hummm, I'm gonna paint it and boot it, worst case I will re-build it and strip the paint off.
Lots of things that should have a boot on them don't, like your front forks and Hydrolic cylinder, dust is more often than not the reason seals fail, at least in heavy equipment applications.
I'll keep ya updated
Lots of things that should have a boot on them don't, like your front forks and Hydrolic cylinder, dust is more often than not the reason seals fail, at least in heavy equipment applications.
I'll keep ya updated
Road Captain
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 508
Likes: 2
From: Idaho Panhandle
Lol funny u say that,I'm an engineer, and still don't know how the fluid inside would hold heat and not transfer it to the metal casing unless it's build with STRICT tempature tolerances. Hummm, I'm gonna paint it and boot it, worst case I will re-build it and strip the paint off.
Lots of things that should have a boot on them don't, like your front forks and Hydrolic cylinder, dust is more often than not the reason seals fail, at least in heavy equipment applications.
I'll keep ya updated
Lots of things that should have a boot on them don't, like your front forks and Hydrolic cylinder, dust is more often than not the reason seals fail, at least in heavy equipment applications.
I'll keep ya updated
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