Can A Shock Be Taken Apart?

[Jammies]

I have 2 shocks I'd like to take apart and clean up. I read that you have to compress the spring completely and then undo a clip or something? Can someone elaborate? And if I do this will the shock need to be reserviced? Thanks in advance.

 

[Triple_B]

You'd have to be more specific on the shocks. What are they from?

A lot of shocks are non rebuildable and cannot be re-serviced. You can, however, remove the spring with a Shock Spring Compressor.

 

[Awk08]

blaster shocks are not servicable, or even taken apart

 

[Triple_B]

blaster shocks are not servicable, or even taken apart

Didn't slick take his springs off to paint them? Thought those were stock shocks... I might be wrong though...

 

[Jammies]

They're LT80 shocks, for my current build. Pretty small little things, I doubt they'd be serviceable if it's not a common thing to do.

 

[Awk08]

yes, i've taken the springs off to paint and clean also
but thats not servicing them

 

[Triple_B]

I see now, just got a little confused when you said "blaster shocks are not servicable, or even taken apart"

But I understand now.

 

[Jammies]

I understand that is not servicing then. So I'm left with two questions:

1) How is it that you get the springs off?

2) Could I sandblast them (Springs off) without damaging anything?

 

[Blaner]

http://www.blasterforum.com/do-yourself-20/how-service-rebuildable-shocks-10664/

 

[Jammies]

Thanks for that. My phone doesn't let me search the forum, so I never saw that.