help on rear suspension

Cagatay Reysen · Post by **Cagatay Reysen** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:29 am

Hi to all Gilera fans,
After a grand maintenance period, i am reassembling the bike. Today, after putting the engine on i noticed that the suspension i had repaired is still broken. No oil leak but still too soft, bike bouncing like a ball:(...
(felt hard though when it was out)

Does anyone know if i have to take the engine down or disassemble the chassis again to take out the suspension ?
and any idea why it is so soft ?

Thanks,
Merry Christmas and a happy new year...

Müller · Post by **Müller** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:20 am

Normally You have to take away the airbox and the plastics between rearshockabsorper and rear-whell.
Now You can disassemble the upper and lower screws. Maybe You must lift the rearwheel a little bit, to take the lower screw out.
Thats all.

Here in Germany are some specialist, who repair Your rearshockabsorber for 100-180,-€. Also "older" GILERA-parts!
Maybe some rubber inside Your absorber is to old to work as it should?

Good prices and service: http://www.emxs.de/shock_service.php

Cagatay Reysen · Post by **Cagatay Reysen** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:00 pm

Thank you very much for your quick reply, it'll be very useful. İ'll have to take the shock to the mechanic again...
İ think he changed the rubbers, don't know where he did wrong...

By the way i tried to examine the link you gave, but it's not suitable for me at the moment. Too much time and money ( even 100€ will reflect to me as 250€ because of customs, postage and rate of exchange:( )...

rocky · Post by **rocky** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:04 pm

Hello! I also have some problems with my suspension on dakota. I took it out and some specialist renwed it. Now i have some quastions.
1. What shoud be air pressure in the upper part of the suspension
2. How much must be spring thighten (comprest together)

Post by **Joachim** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:33 pm

Hello

a good article about adjusting the preload of a motorcycle suspenison is to find at

http://www.racetech.com/articles/Suspen ... prings.htm

What about the air pressure.... don't know.
You may keep your hands off this valve.
Usually the dampers are not filled with air but with nitrogen gas. Pressure is used to be very high.
There have been systems out there where the owner could adjust the pressure itself. But I don' know if the Dakota has something like that or not.
So be carefull.
Maybe the Dakota owners here around ca nhelp you with better informations.

ciao joachim