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Old 25-04-2007
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Originally Posted by rich_cree View Post
If you ran our shocks upside down you would have air not oil next to the seals, this means there would be no pressure on the seals and they would take in air when extending and piss oil out when compressing so they woldn't stay fresh as long
But in practice you should have no air in the shock chamber mixed with the oil so there for the pressure would be on the seal.

granted if you had air in the shock then it would create a vac behind the seal as the shock extends poss alowing air in.
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