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Hi folks, I'm just rebuild a set of KYB Airshocks. Does anyone have a manual or knows something about the oil level and the airpressure ?
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_X_ 9/12/2020 6:39pm
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Try contacting Enzo suspension
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Hasletjoe 9/12/2020 7:10pm
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I could use that information as well. If a source is located.


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heckenzwirn 9/13/2020 5:10am
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Here is the answer from Enzo Racing:

Thank you for your inquiry. I'm afraid I don't remember the specifications on those shocks. They were called "TYPE F" air shocks and had 3 damping adjustment settings set by rotating the shaft, then compressing it to rotate to the correct position...I'm pretty sure there are not even people working in JAPAN KYB that still remember!

Ross Maeda/enzoracingKYB...

need your guy´s help...
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PN27416 9/14/2020 9:34am
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Thor Lawson at evolution suspension can sell you a manual for them. Trick stuff!
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Bearuno 10/18/2020 9:46pm
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RIchieRich99 wrote:
Has anyone come up with specs for these shocks
Look at PN's recommendation of (one of) Thor's site extensions: http://www.evolutionsuspensionproducts.com/

It's in the Betor-Ceriani-Marzocchi Fork and Shocks and KYB Airshocks listing. These are the pictures he has there as an example of the 16 pages - the cover and the index page:

$5.00 is not going to break the bank for info you are after. And $41 for seals, wipers, bottom out bumpers and O'rings for a pair of shocks is more than fair .

Thor Lawson is an absolute goldmine of Info, Parts and Service, for so much 'Vintage' suspension.

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heckenzwirn 10/19/2020 9:50am
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Thor's manual arrived last week. Now translate a few more passages and then I can get started. Thanks for the hint!
Glassworker 10/19/2020 2:28pm
10/19/2020 2:28pm
Wow, beautiful shocks,

Were these Works only shocks or was it available to the public, and How did their performance differ from the FOX Air shocks?
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Bearuno 10/19/2020 9:10pm
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Glassworker wrote:
Wow, beautiful shocks,

Were these Works only shocks or was it available to the public, and How did their performance differ from the FOX Air shocks?
As I wrote on the DR500 thread, elsewhere here, with the pictures of the Hallman Enqvist DR370 (that had both the KYB Airshocks and the KYB billet forks), they were the 'A', or 'B' kit of that era. MXA etc had tests of them. You could buy them.

I don't think they (the type pictured here) were a 'full' air shock - as in the Air being the only compressive medium - , with the size of the spring within them seemingly much to big / heavy to be a negative spring. And, in the dim dark reaches of my tiny Bear Brain, I recall two versions of them - not sure if the 'other' had a reservoir?

Where I worked in the late 70s / early 80s: the Fox importers, we brought in a few Hallman Enqvist Aberg Yamaha frame kits, and one came with KYB Air Shocks and Simons Forks. I do remember the KYBs were soon replaced with Fox Airshocks, but that may have been purely down to what CDs sold - Fox.

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