What is done during a 5th Element Air Full Service?
Before any service work is carried out the shock is cleaned and hand dyno’d to check its operation. It’s then stripped and all air and oil seals/o-rings are removed prior to cleaning the individual parts. Once cleaned and dried the parts are inspected before fitting new large and small Control Valve O-Rings, Seal Head O-ring, IFP O-ring and Main Piston ring in the damper unit plus all the air can seals. Then we assemble everything in accordance with factory procedures (speed-up the low speed rebound to improve the small bump ride – makes shock feel less ‘dead’), put oil in the important places and bleed all the air out of the damper. Then we pump her up to match your original settings. Next we do a leak test for air before popping it on the hand dyno to check all the adjusters do what they’re meant to do. Finally we replace the spherical mount bearings, install the mounting hardware and send it back.
