[gkotlin]

Seems pretty straight forward. But if your not familiar with forks, or not very mechanical, I wouldn't try it.

Forks are very important and putting them together wrong can have catastropic results. You need to measure the fork oil height before you reassemble them.

The fork oil level acts as your last bit of spring travel. The air in the top of the forks is hard to compress and acts like a stiff bump stop as I understand it. You need to measure the oil height to set this correctly. You can't just add a certain amount of oil to each tube as you can't be sure that you get all the oil out of the forks or even the same amount of oil.

 

[gkotlin]

But as the air compresses, it gets harder to compress. Acting as a progressive bump stop. It keeps the forks from getting to a point where metal is on metal. But it does so in manner that isn't as harsh as metal on metal contact.