Fox TALAS Forks – Wiper Seal maintenance

Following on from a successful air can service on our Fox Float shocks, Jon and I decided the other day to do a wiper seal clean and lube on our forks. These things should be done every 15 hours of riding according tot the official Fox service intervals so it was time to do them.

Once again it all went well. We took off the brake caliper and hose guide, unscrewed the nuts at the base of the fork lowers, removed the crush washers and then put the nuts back on so that we could hit them with a hammer to release the lowers. This bit was a little worrying but we soon had them free and removed the lowers from the forks.

We then clean the seals, removed the wiper seals and cleaned them then soaked them in Fox Float Fluid before replacing them and putting the lowers back on. At this stage we put some suspension fluid into the forks via the holes at the base of the lowers and then put them back together again.

We weren’t quite sure about the oil volumes for my forks as the Fox video showed them putting 10ml of suspension fluid into the Talas side and nothing in the right hand side of the forks (other than the float fluid soaked into the wiper seal). The Mojo instructions which were trying to cover a range of forks said to put 5ml in each side but in Talas forks ONLY put 10ml in the Talas side. We couldn’t decide if this meant put 5ml in each side, but on Talas forks (adn no other forks) put 10ml in the Talas side rather than just 5ml. Or if it meant in Talas forks only put 10ml in the Talas side and nothing in the other side.

In the end I went for 10ml in the Talas side and nothing in the other side and so far everything feels fine. I just hope it was right. Does anyone know if this was right?