Me and my friend have just recently bought some Marzocchi All Mountain III's which are mint, BUT, we have found that with our disc brakes (Hydraulic Magura Julie's) if you pull the front brake to do a rolling stoppy or some such thing the front quick release come loose. This can be very annoying because you have to keep undoing the quick release and retighening it in the correct position again. It also is wearing into the magnesium slider, thus making it smooth. I am sure that cannot be good for the fork.
If anyone is having the same problems with their forks (either the same kind or any kind) could you give right a reply on this thread, and any possible methods of combating this problem (if you can) would be greatly appreciated.
You have a dropout that was made with a taper. Find an LBS that has dropout milling equipment or talk to Marzocchi directly. I run Marzocchis in racing and freeride and never had a problem. It is more than likely a defect in the casting.
You have a dropout that was made with a taper. Find an LBS that has dropout milling equipment or talk to Marzocchi directly. I run Marzocchis in racing and freeride and never had a problem. It is more than likely a defect in the casting.
Thank you for your help here, but, what is LBS milling equiment?
The tools vary somwhat, but the gist of it is a tool that grinds a small bit of material away from the dropout faces to make them parallell in relation to eachother. Dropout milling is a rather uncommon procedure so it may be reccomended to have the factory do it. Ask a knowledgable shop first to see what they say, having laid eyes on it. They can sometimes get more action out of the warranty claims departments too. Marzocchi is usually well known for thier service, so have no fear.
The tools vary somwhat, but the gist of it is a tool that grinds a small bit of material away from the dropout faces to make them parallell in relation to eachother. Dropout milling is a rather uncommon procedure so it may be reccomended to have the factory do it. Ask a knowledgable shop first to see what they say, having laid eyes on it. They can sometimes get more action out of the warranty claims departments too. Marzocchi is usually well known for thier service, so have no fear.
thanks very much for the comments, i am going to email Marzocchi about it i think and see what they say, then i think i will get it checked out by a fully qualified techy to see what they say. Thank very much, i am definitely going to get something done about it soon.
