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the f1 shock is awsome
i got this military shock as in the ones they put in the deisel klr 's and it is magnificent from noleen j6 NOLEEN J6 RACING - MAIN PAGE in california $500 plus super fast shipping from DHL ,i rode with a blown shock through half of mexico ,not pleasant i can say ,but this shock is high end quality. and i have my bike well loaded with lots of off road, it's a straight easy bolt in , my kx 250f front end is the next mod to finish it off
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If you are in Huaraz, I would go talk to Simon, who owns a restaurant called Chili Heaven. It is in the little plaza where all the guiding companies are. He is an avid motorcyclist and will likely have local contacts for repairs. Good food, too!
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Temporary Fix again with Shock being sent from the US
Hey guys,

Thanks for all of the support....I found a guy here in Huaraz who could take the shock apart (akin to the Lima situation). So my rear end has stopped flopping around but I am not sure how long this one will last so I am having a shock sent down to one of my forward destinations in Quito or Medellin.

I think may have figured out why my shock failed.....no one here has the pressurised nitrogen so they are not filling the shock. As I understand it there is only shock oil in my shock right now. Anyone know if this sounds right? My thought is that when I took the bike on the dirt track and played with her over the bumps I blew out my seals. This was just a thought. The back end does not have any spring back when pushed down. It just sort of sits there but it no longer bottoms out. The questions me be better asked in the teck section.

Thanks for all of the help and any suggestions on shipping into Quito or Medellin with regards to customs will be helpful. I am going to ask dualstar and klr650.com if they can put a lower price on the invoice so i do not get nailed on import taxes.

We will ride out of Huaraz tomorrow on our way to Casma directly over the hill....no canon de pato for us on this trip but I will for sure make it back down here to play some more!

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Hey guys,

Thanks for all of the support....I found a guy here in Huaraz who could take the shock apart (akin to the Lima situation). So my rear end has stopped flopping around but I am not sure how long this one will last so I am having a shock sent down to one of my forward destinations in Quito or Medellin.

I think may have figured out why my shock failed.....no one here has the pressurised nitrogen so they are not filling the shock. As I understand it there is only shock oil in my shock right now. Anyone know if this sounds right? My thought is that when I took the bike on the dirt track and played with her over the bumps I blew out my seals. This was just a thought. The back end does not have any spring back when pushed down. It just sort of sits there but it no longer bottoms out. The questions me be better asked in the teck section.

Thanks for all of the help and any suggestions on shipping into Quito or Medellin with regards to customs will be helpful. I am going to ask dualstar and klr650.com if they can put a lower price on the invoice so i do not get nailed on import taxes.

We will ride out of Huaraz tomorrow on our way to Casma directly over the hill....no canon de pato for us on this trip but I will for sure make it back down here to play some more!

Hadjh
If you can find a welding shop, you may find nitrogen. If not, use argon or nitrogen argon mix, commonly used in TIG or MIG welding. The trick is putting together an adaptor to rig to your shock. I re-built an old Works sock years ago and filled it with Blueshield 8, an Argon/CO2 mix... it worked fine. May get you going until you can get it properly filled, as long as you use a preasurised inert gas. Time to get creative!
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You can send it to my address here in Quito,but first I,ll talk to Kawasaki here in Quito to see if they have one in stock and how much it costs.I,ll let you know tomorrow night.
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noooooooooooooooo
dont get a progressive shock ,it wont be long before you end up back in the shit you are in right now read a bit about progressive and then weep ,oh well you will find out the hard way why the us military dont use a shitty progressive shock on there bikes ,good luck
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Re: Military Shock

Any chance they would have one of those military shocks at one of the US military bases in South America. Just a thought.

The second rebuild of the shock lasted 5 hours and was blown before I read Mr Ron's post. So we are headed out of Huaraz to the coast as we keep working to arrange a new shock. Thanks for the support. I am talking with the Noleen company suggested previously in this thread about getting the shock and sending it down.

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