Group buy parts purchase?
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Chicken Hawk
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Re: Group buy parts purchase?
Does anyone know if the spax shocks will fit the later ital set up?
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Re: Group buy parts purchase?
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The Spax range is wide enough that you can specify what you want. Measure your old Ital shock and then work out what you need.
The key measurement is the Open to Closed length, i.e. the length of travel of the shock. With the Marina having a top and bottom bump stop, too long a shocker will restrict travel because of the length of the piston rod, too short a shocker and it will limit travel as on droop as the piston will hit the end of the shocker tube.
The Spax kit used a 7" travel shocker, I think that the Ital will be very similar, but I'd suggest measuring first. The Spax code on my conversion was G7LL which means;
G = Gas shock - now superceded by the Krypton shocks, so now GS I think
7 = 7" of travel
L = the top fixing is a loop or eye
L = the bottom fixing is a loop or eye.
There is a Spax spec for back shocks, from memory G642 - but best to check.
The Spax range is wide enough that you can specify what you want. Measure your old Ital shock and then work out what you need.
The key measurement is the Open to Closed length, i.e. the length of travel of the shock. With the Marina having a top and bottom bump stop, too long a shocker will restrict travel because of the length of the piston rod, too short a shocker and it will limit travel as on droop as the piston will hit the end of the shocker tube.
The Spax kit used a 7" travel shocker, I think that the Ital will be very similar, but I'd suggest measuring first. The Spax code on my conversion was G7LL which means;
G = Gas shock - now superceded by the Krypton shocks, so now GS I think
7 = 7" of travel
L = the top fixing is a loop or eye
L = the bottom fixing is a loop or eye.
There is a Spax spec for back shocks, from memory G642 - but best to check.