Shock Absorber rebuild Service

muddle84 · 26-09-2022 3:30pm #1

Is there anywhere that rebuilds shock absorbers? I have a 2002 CB400SF and the back shocks aren't great!

ratracer · 26-09-2022 3:38pm

I used VMTEK in Cork a few years ago and was very happy with the service:

http://www.vmtek.ie/

muddle84 · 26-09-2022 3:50pm

I will give them a shout. thanks for that. Is that for a road bike or track? I presume they do both

CreadanLady · 26-09-2022 4:43pm

Surely it would be mad expensive to recondition a shock?

Would it be cheaper and easier just to replace the whole thing. Shocks are cheap consumables.

muddle84 · 27-09-2022 8:39am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119667770#Comment_119667770

Once its just the seals that are gone you're just paying for a few seals and oil and labour so I would have thought a couple of hundred for the pair. But somebody might be able to correct me on that.

The shocks for my bike definitely aren't cheap, I've found it very hard to source and the only place i have found them is 1100 this the reason I am looking at the rebuild root.

ratracer · 27-09-2022 9:45am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119667558#Comment_119667558

It was a road bike for me, it was the front end of my VFR800 that I got done.

Fabio · 27-09-2022 11:38am

Try VMTEK and NDM (they're about the only places around really).

Don't hold out hope though. I attempted to have my OE-Showa VFR 750 rear shock rebuilt here. It's not officially rebuildable in the way that something from Ohlins, Wilbers, YSS, Hagon is.

I ended up sending it to a crowd in England (MCT suspension) and they rebuilt it for me. It might be an option for you, plenty of places over there do this work including Ktech, Firefox Suspension, Brooks Suspension, but I don't know whether Brexit has destroyed that idea now with potential customs charges etc.

galwaytt · 27-09-2022 2:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119669864#Comment_119669864

I replaced the air shock on my H-D from Hagon with a pair of brand new ones for less than the cost of the repair. Even made me a custom length and I had them in 4 days from UK. It literally wouldn't pay you to open the old ones up.

About £410 - £590 for a pair of Nitron piggyback shocks for yours.

https://www.hagon-shocks.co.uk/common/pdf/TwinShocks2022.pdf

https://www.hagon-shocks.co.uk/

CreadanLady · 29-09-2022 9:45am

Oh right. We are talking performance stuff.

I was just thinking your average run of the mill shocks. These would be just consumables as in when they are shot you just replace them.

muddle84 · 29-09-2022 1:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119679458#Comment_119679458

Certainly not talking performance in my case! Its just a 2002 CB400sf run about, just parts are very hard to source for it!!

Fabio · 29-09-2022 1:50pm

I love those CB400s! I knew a guy before who had one and replaced the stock shocks with ones he got from China. I'm not one of those people who would usually slate Chinese products, I keep an open mind, but the rear of the bike was awful. It was so bouncy, it was as if they forgot it needed oil for damping!

Look into YSS shocks, they're reasonably priced (still expensive but, for what they are they're a good price).

muddle84 · 29-09-2022 2:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119680733#Comment_119680733

Thanks for that, where do you source the shocks?

Fabio · 29-09-2022 2:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119680881#Comment_119680881

I found a YSS for my Deauville on ebay. It was actually secondhand, got it from a breakers in Poland for very reasonable money and the shock was in great nick, I'd say it'd been barely used. That said, anything was going to be better than the standard shock which had all the damping and control of a pogo stick at this stage in its life!

29-09-2022 3:08pm

+1 for YSS. I got one for my Versys 650 and it transformed it from something that impacted my spine on every bump to a bike that now makes prime motorway out of even the roughest Irish boreens.

muddle84 · 29-09-2022 3:47pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119681075#Comment_119681075

Did you source yours from ebay too?

I see they are on xlmoto too but hard to get specs for the shocks on that

Hotblack Desiato · 01-10-2022 7:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119679458#Comment_119679458

You've probably arrived here from the homepage, we are not talking about cars here.

galwaytt · 03-10-2022 4:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119679458#Comment_119679458

no, not performance stuff.

The majority of bikes run on very mundane bike shocks.

19-11-2022 9:33am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119681220#Comment_119681220

I got it from some company in the UK. I got YSS shocks before for a CB750 on eBay and am convinced they were fakes.

muddle84 · 08-12-2022 1:52pm

I toke apart the rear shocks and they were completely done, the oil had completely leaked out of one of them altogether! I ended up getting YSS units from Motorcyle parts Ireland in Cork. They have transformed the bike completely, I had no idea it was as bad as it was until I fitted the new ones!

Thanks for the help everybody! I 've managed to source the oil seals for the front shocks so will rebuild them myself over the christmas!