oil fill hole?

[wornknobby]

i saw on a few shocks a while back and got thingking....

there was a allen head bolt in the top of the shock, now if you were to remove this the nitrogen would escape i assume, but could you fill it w/ oil from this hole, and then just refill your shock w/ nitrogen?

 

[MX Junkie]

The nitrogen is separate (bladder) from the oil.

 

[wornknobby]

so if you were to remove this bolt, what would happen?

 

[JTT]

Ohlins have this little bolt. If you removed it it would leak oil. The nitrogen is separated from the oil via a piston or bladder, but there is some pressure on the oil. Removing this bolt would releave this pressure.

This bolt is used on Ohlins shocks to add/remove fluid to correct piston (nitrogen separation piston) height...before recharging with gas.