Any info on where to pick up rebuild kits or parts and pdf worksheets for the rebuild. 1983 Maico 490 with the original Ohlin single remote reservoir shock. Bike being rebuilt in California. Thanks beforehand.
Thor Lawson is the guy you want to get in touch with. google his name and it should bring you to his site.
Update, put in a shop to have the work done, ordered a rebuild kit and Ohlins oil. Shop called and said that the shock was hopeless and junk, come and pick it up. The shock was in pieces and they said it was the first Ohlins they had opened up and I suspect they screwed up the job. I'm now trying to clean up the mess. I'm moving along ok but have a question. The compression dampening adjustment assembly on the shaft needs disassembly. It has me at a standstill and looks as though the "shop" has trashed the internal threads. Does anyone have a clue on how it comes apart as I suspect there's orings that need replacing inside. The "shop" also said they couldn't get the remote reservoir apart and metal shaving were coming out of the threads and they just retightened it and said it's trashed. In a bad situation here, help?
need to send the shock to a shop that has experience with ohlins before more damage is done. its possibly a somewhat rare configuration being on the maico but should still be an ohlins inside. im on the east coast here, many of us use WER, as drew has done many ohlins and treats you right.
