i know that this has been asked before but i can;t for the life of me find the old thread, so what is the psi supposed to be on a stock 400es shock, and what are they fillled with and where can i get them checked or filled?
400ex shock psi in ressi?
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i was thinkin that maybe a auto store could fillit, and the valve looks like a tire valve so a car tire pressure guage might work, right?
ahh idk i would get in touch with somone more knowledgable like not me.... well not with shocks of that matter
i know that the ford dealers around here use nitrogen to fill tires so they might be able to help you out
they said it expands an contracts less so your tire preasure stays the same year round lol it didnt make sense to me either
what happens is that air heats up faster than nitrogen, dose that make more sense
ok, so i was fiddleing around and i wonder if there is a valve behind the cap on the rssi cause i don't want to open it and find out there isn't one there.
ok, my shock has 64 psi in it according to my dads tire gauge, the stupid retards at the honda dealer couldn't help me with this question cause they're retarted,.....................are any of your dealers real buttholes cause b and e honda sucks!!!!
bimp,bump,bump,bump,bump,bump,bump,bump,bump,bump,bump!!!, cmon guy's i need help, i don't think the tire gauge read it right, should i bring it in or just not worry about it?
whatevr, screw it i will just insal it tomorrow and if the pressures wrong, o well, i can fined noone with the knoedge of how much pressure they have and the people at b nd e honda are so freakin stupid that they won't even help me on my third call, causethey say the service depo. is crowded, even though i drove by and there was no even a customer there, screw them!
To clear up a few points. Nitrogen is used because it is an inert gas. Air contains many things including water. There for the "Air" will expand more than nitrogen so the presure will increase and decrease more. You can not check the presure in a shock with a tire gage, there is so little gas in the shock that you let a good portion of the charge out by filling the gage. I primarily service snowmobile shocks which are typically set to 200 PSI. If you were to turn right around and check the presure it would be around 150 depending on the shock and the volume of nitrogen. If you are using air or nitrogen you can't fill it like tire you are supposed to use a zero loss fill valve. You could maybe get away with setting the line pressure to the desired shock pressure and remove the fill valve from the shrader vale quickly if you didn't have a zero loss tool handy but it is really anyones guess what actuall charge you will have in it. Showa shocks typically call for 160 PSI but when I rebuilt my 250r shock I put 200 in it. Gas pressure is more to raise the boiling point of the oil rather than to tune the shock combine that with the fact that this shock is going into a different application than it was intended and that makes the factory recommendation point less. I put 200 in to keep it consistent with the shocks I service. The other reason that it is unlikely that a tire store can fill it is that they probably have a max of 100 psi on their regulator. Mine being for this type of work goes to 500
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