How to install race tech gold valves

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You can tell if a shim is thicker by feeling if it harder to bend, but thats not going to tell you the exact thickness. So, the RT gold valves don't come pre-shimmed for my type of riding? The kits come with enough shims to cover every combination so there are a lot of extras of different sizes and thicknesses. So yes you will need a set of calipers.

I recomend digital its easier and faster. Once you get the kit you can go to there web site and enter a code thats included with the kit for a 1 time stack configuration.

Its strange Try there recomindations you will be happy. Yes and when you get done send me all the spare shims for my collection. If you decide to do the gold valves go to the suspension forum and ask about them a few guys could give you suggestions. Also if you don,t like them you can tune them to your liking, just by taking the base valve out. So, am I going to be able to go onto Race Tech 's site and give them my info and they tell me the shim configuration to use?

If they don't, I guess you guys will have to. Anyhoo, I got some extra bones for christmas and my birthday is next tuesday so I should be able to get gold valves front and rear. It will be worth it When you get your kits, there will be a code that comes with them, you enter this into the racespec site and you will be shown various different setups and you choose which one will be best for you and if you don't like it, you can just try a different setup.

Have a look for any signs of wear on the bushings while you have your suspension apart you will see that the teflon coating may be rubbed down to the metal in places, if you don't see that, they should be fine.

You will have to remove the base valve assembly, and carefully remove some nuts that are peened from the factory. This is pretty easy with a file on the forks, and not bad on the shock, but you will use a grinder here to remove it.

Once thats done you disassemble the valve stack shim by shim, clean everything really good and then build the new valve assembly using the Racetech gold valve and their recomended shim stacks. Instead of peening the nuts on reassembly, you use red loctite and only torque them to something like 5 foot pounds.

This requires a really small torque wrench, or if you are cheap like me, a 10 lb weight tied to your wrench 6 inches from the end. If you do it this way, make sure the wrench is resting horizontally with the weight applied, otherwise you will not have the correct torque applied. I know my torquing method sounds ridiculous, but it worked perfectly. Its a very low torque value, and the threads are aluminum, so its important to get it right. Racetech will also tell you to remove the fork's midvalve and replace it with a checkvalve.

This is not popular by everyone here. I did it, and am happy. It does make the job a good bit harder though, and requires a tool to hold the cartridge and another to disassemble it. Motoman's site shows a cheap way to make the tool with a piece of PVC pipe. The shock was pretty easy I did my own nitrogen recharging , but their directions and "how to" video were not real good about bleeding the shock.

Do a search here and you will find some info on how to do this much better. I think the real key though for a do it yourselfer is to be very honest about your riding ability and weight when filling out the Racetech form to get your shim stack reccomendations. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Race Tech Gold Valves hard to install? Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts.