OK, i am starting to get a bit confused here! :confused: ...i knew this would happen but please be patient, i am learning and i am very grateful for your time and help! ;)
Marcus: When you say "your level sounds too high", i think you mean that the value of mm of distance from the oil to the top of the fork is too high, and this coresponds to being a low oil level? Things alway get confusing, the oil level measurement is always a negative number, so the smaller that negative number the more oil there is in the fork.
Thus, for the application my suspension has been set up for, they have run a low oil level in the fork (high mm value) and offset this with too much low speed compresion damping? (for whatever reason)
And if this is the case :think: , (ie i have too much compresion damping) then the only real way around this is re-valving for my application, since running thinner fork oil will do little for the rate of compression damping?
And in the mean time, the best i can do is change to a thinner fluid to help a bit and suck it up. (its really not far off, so its not a massive issue).
Finally, can you explain what other effect the oil level has? More precisely, the airspace controls the last 33% of the stroke, does changing the oil levels have any major effect and move this last 33% of the stroke up or down? or is it too minisule to worry about?
please let me know if my questions start to get irritating, youve got me hooked and i want to understand and learn. I put half of my chemistry proffesors into early retirement with my questions....the rest of the class hated me for asking too many questions, but i got the last laugh on them when it came to exams! :D
thanks again.