Hello all,
A few months back, I purchased a set of YFZ450 shocks from eBay in preparation for my first Banshee build. On Saturday, myself and DallasGDub were prepping them to install on my frame with stock A-arms. Here's what one of them looks like:
Both of them look basically the same. My first question is...do those springs look right? every other one that I've seen have the coils bunched up closer to the top. This looks more like a rear spring to me. Another thing that's weird is that there was absolutely NO pressure when I had the spring tensioner about half way up the threads. Did this guy I bought these shocks from fuck me over? Or is this just an older version of the YFZ front shocks?
The 2nd part is, when G Dub was messing with one of them to look at the coils, he unscrewed the bottom, and this part shot out:
Fluid went EVERYWHERE. I don't know if we will have to rebuild it just due to that, or if we can just add the fluid to recharge it. I guess before we get that far though, I need to know if these are even worth messing with. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, here's what it's looking like so far, minus the cool head / domes from FAST: