How To: Servicing your Santa Cruz Bicycles Suspension Linkage
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
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I’m a bike guy and a car guy. The first thing I do when I buy a new bike is wax everything with my favorite car wax. Then dirt just rinses off with low pressure. I maintain that slippery finish with Maxima SC1 “new bike in a can” (just make sure you don’t get it on your rotors). Once a year, when I rip the bike apart for maintenance I wax the bike again. Keeping everything waxed and slippery has almost made full tear downs a thing of the past. Pivots are typically clean like new still and hard to get to pivots never need to be replaced. The next owner of the bike really appreciates it a lot too.
I would like to know what exactly do you mean by waxing everything do you just spray it where the bolts connect with the frame and let it dry?
How do you wax the bike? I mean do you tear it apart into pieces wax and then re-assemble? Thanks!
@@dancing8595 I do it with the bike assembled. Some areas are difficult to reach but I find away with a small foam paint brush usually. When I wipe it off, after it dries, I typically use an old cotton washcloth. Microfiber towels can scratch the surface if something gets stuck in the towel.. which usually happens if you accidentally drop it. Microfiber towels are overrated. Every time you buy a used car and the lens over the gauge cluster is scratched up… a microfiber towel is probably to blame. Same with flat screen TVs. It’s almost as bad as using sand paper. Just pull one across you dry skin and it’s pretty apparent. They work well on soft touch areas inside your car because they pick up dust and debris. That’s about the extent of their usefulness.
@@skipast75 sweet. Thanks for beta.
Very nicely done! I was about to take my daughter's Tallboy in for service. now I think I will do it myself! Thanks!
Santa Cruz frames do not use conical bearings since 2018, they never have. They use radial bearings. Also do not pull on the collet with pliers!! You will for sure bend it. Thread the screw back into it without the tapered washer and pull on the head of the screw.
Good advice on threading the screw and pulling it. That is genius!!
Yes, a very light touch with a padded needle-nose was used to just pick up the conical. No bend but the screw pull is much better.
Best linkage video on the internet, thanks!!
Wow, thanks!
Great video. How come you dont lock-tite the pivot axle bolts? I saw them covered in grease. Thanks!
You should ensure all components are immaculate and slathered in fresh grease. Additionally you want to use blue loctite and must use legit torque wrenches to spec.
Nice video good follow along video reference! One note on axles, they are supposed to be torqued to 20Nm according to Santa Cruz documentation, for pretty much all new lower link bikes I've checked the exploded view, the 5mm bolt is torqued to 9 Nm, the article does have the correct torque specs. Good job on the very detailed article and video!
I was working on a 2013/2014 Joplin/Tallboy. When I torque the 5mm bolt to 90 in-lb (~10Nm), it snapped in two pieces. It took me 2 hrs to get the broken bolt out and ended up stripping the 5mm allen keyhole on the axle bolt. The exploded view indicated only 35 in-lb (~4Nm) for the pivot axel bolt. Is that correct?
very informative. subscribed
How do you recommend cleaning bikes with the matte paint on carbon?
Thanks Francis! - Padre
Another question, please -- Did you ever have a gap form between the lower linkage and the rear triangle, on the drive side of the bike? When I screw in the pivot axel bolt into the rear triangle, the tab the bolt screws into is pushed away from the linkage - leaving a 1-2 mm gap. It super tight/flush on the non-drive / bolt insertion side. If so, any solutions to fixing it? Thanks!
Off topic but how is the heckler??
Make a RC suspension maintenance video on the other channel...
That's a great bit of information where you said about the axel not being too tight. It's something that's not obvious on the SC website.
I have a 2015 Bronson and I tightened the axel to the torque specified on the SC website and the linkages could hardly move!
The locking collar is what needs to be tightened to the full torque specs.
The axel can be tightened by feel to keep 'play' to a minimum but also allow free movement in the linkage.
Then you tighten the locking collar.
Awesome video!
Shouldn’t we bleed the shock before we remove it? And check pressure before you bleed it so that we can recharge it to the right pressure? Might be good to note as an important step.
Do you mean de pressurise the shock? If so it doesn't need to be done. Its a linkage service not a shock service
Most people that have ridden long enough to Clean their own Bearings know how to set their Shock Pressures from having done it a couple dozen times.
Ka bayan!
What grease gun are you using?
Both in the video are made by Santa Cruz Bikes.
Best to get a proper industrial grease gun rather than the tiny santa Cruz things. Much cheaper too.
any particular grease for this?
You look like the rc crawler guy from another channel
English accent sounds like Filipino? Tama ba ko kabayan?
The camera is in the wrong place....can't see what your are doing. Just showing what your hands are doing is better than showing you and the otherside of the bike frame.
*Pro Tip* FF to 5 min
Less talk
Save yourself money and the hassle go get an aggressive slack hardtail.
How to do it... Don't! Santa Cruz will replace the bearings whenever you want for free for life.