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Had a cruise on the weekend, was great fun, from Ballarat to Geelong, a bloke took us on a back road (mount steglitz or somethin like that), and it was unreal!! Twisty and Turny, up and down all over the place.. Was great!! The problem is i miss read a really tight banked hairpin.. Hit it way too fast and really had to get on the anchors HARD and the front right suspension felt the full brunt of it all. Kept cruising to Geelong, pride a lil damaged but nothin else...

Then i noticed some knocking every now and then coming from the front right coilover. Pulled over, checked underneath and there it is, bloody oil everywhere!! So looks like i need that coilover rebuilt.

Does anyone know of anyone who does them? As Ballarat is a shit town and no-one knows bugger all!! haha Also any ideas on how much it costs?

Thanks heaps in advance!!

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I was talking to Jeff Beaumont at Techsport just last week about repairing HKS Hypermax suspension and he indicated that it was basically impossible to repair that stuff. They can be re-gassed etc ok but not really rebuilt.

Perhaps give him a call.

TECH///SPORT , Bayswater

ph ( 03 ) 9720-9300

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a lot of places will say that but if it's a blown seal (sounds like it is) then it can be rebuilt. Pretty much any shock can be rebuilt you just need the right seal. basically you need to disasemble the shock, remove the top seal and take it to a place that specialises in rubber seals and get them to match it. then go to somewhere that rebuilds shocks (places that do bike shocks are good for some reason). Take them some of the oil and they will measure it's weight, and can give you a bottle of shock oil to match it. then it's re-assemble time and get them gassed. away you go.

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