Hi Léon,
Problem is that the piston rod is mortally wounded
I did contact 2 companies who told me that for "our" shock, the piston rod is not available anymore.
So only 2 solutions remained: either rechrome and regrind the excisting rod (
) or rebuild my shock with a new modern Öhlins piston rod incl. a new piston.
If you take into account the other parts I want to renew that would cost me around 700 euro's.
That's to much (o, forgot: no guarantees).
So decided to order a brand new one (Wilbers) but wanted (again) one including a hydraulic pretensioner.
So I called Wilbers (mr. André Peters in charge of special on-off items) only to find out the shock (listed for Paso 906) was not what I wanted.
This due to a MUCH reduced available stroke of only 53mm (original Öhlins has 78mm).
I won't bother you to explain why they did so (long time ago by the way).
Long discussion short: I convinced them to rebuild their original design so that I will get a 367mm shock (original is 365mm) with a 78mm stroke.
Also I will get the hydraulic pretensioner.
The only "negative" consequence is that it will have a piggy bag since I'm not a fan of emulsion shocks and Wilbers has only the piggy bag solution (Öhlins had the floating piston to separate the shock oil and the nitrogene gas).
Have ordered the spring in "Öhlins yellow" as compromise so the looks are similar to the original Öhlins shock.
Well due to the non original color it will take them 6 weeks to assemble my shock.
Have ordered and paid so now I will have to wait.
That means I have 6 weeks for my frame and aluminium rear swing parts to get ready, so that I can start building her up somewhere before Christmas (will be a nice holiday for my wife
).
To be continued ....
