About the MArzocchi 48mm shims stack settings
 

Hi guys. My first post here.

About the Marzocchi 48mm fork.
Have any one of you guys come up with a good setting on the compression stack? Or what the default setting would be, if I should go back to basic?
I would be really grateful.
I bought this bike, a 2012 300 racing model, and the fork had been worked on, by pros. But it is way to harsh for me, and where I ride. I ride woods with a lot of square edge rocks and roots. And the fork just beets me up.

I have now torn the fork apart, and have the midvalve on the table. But honestly I'm not sure on how to set the shims to get it plusher. I do think that it's the high speed that's the problem. On a MX track, it works very well. But in the woods, with the rocks and stuff.. It's terrible.

I have the 4.4 springs and the sag seems right.

There seems not to be any crossover shim in the midvalve compression stack. Should there be one?

Any suggestions would be helpful, and spare me a lot of testing time.

Cheers!
/Daniel

Mine works good in rocks, and faster stuff as well. Stock stack with the bleed removed is very close. Actually bleed removed on all ckts., added rebound. Details later, iphone battery about to die.

I have the full specs of the shim stacks and I have no problem to release it unless Admin or any other objects. This is not intellectual property of any shop, it's simply the standard config of the '11 forks. Would this be OK to post ?

OK, back on different device. Yes Vindicator that is fine to post. If its handy go ahead and we will comment on changes. Only rule here is posting specs that you got from a tuner that makes his living at it, especially one of our guys here. Other than that its all good technical discussion.


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This is Marzocchi standard , it's not from any tuner. I will also post on the Marzocchi 48 CC post

Compression
2 x 11 x 0,20
18 x 0,15
20 x 0,10
22 x 0,10
24 x 0,10
26 x 0,15
2 x 32 x 0,15
12 x 0,10

Rebound
12 x 0,10
20 x 0,10
18 x 0,10
14 x 0,10

By pass
12 x 0,10
2 x 20 x 0,15
2 x 11 x 0,20
15 x 0,15
16 x 0,15
18 x 0,15
Spring


Compression : 20 out
Rebound : 20 out
Spring : K 0,420
Preeload : 2nd up (0mm.)
PFP : 02 turn in
Spring PFP : K 20
Oil : EBH 16 (7,5wt.)
Oil level : 320cc

Great! Thank you Vindicator.

So if I got this right. The bleed shim thats supposed to be removed is the compression 12 x 0,10?

So I took the compression stack apart and started to measure the shims.
This is how mine was set up.

pist.
31.8 0,15
31.8 0,15
27 0,15
26 0,15
24 0,1
22 0,1
20 0,1
18 0,1
16 0,1
14 0,1
11 0,2
11 0,2

I have not yet removed the pushrod with the rebound and midvalve from the cartridge. (haven't figured out how to disassemble that yet.. :rolleyes: ) But what do you guys say about that setting so far om the compression part?

With reference to the stacks provided, not to what you have, remove the 12 mm bleed shims from the comp, mid, and rebound stacks. Move the two 12x.1s you removed from the face of the comp behind the two 36s. This will make a nice two stage stack that works well in the rocks. If your in the woods most of the time run the spring preload as low as you can and the outer chamber oil around 300cc.

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STOP!

If you have never taken a CC fork apart before please study the manual first to avoid damage to parts that are very hard to get at this time. Please read it as well as the threads here. I will be happy to answer questions when you understand the basics.



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Thanks for the warning :)

Yeah I doing a lot of studying. Reading the manual and I think I have read every suspension thread on the internet ;)
So hopfully I wont mess things up.. And I do think I understand the basics :)