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This evening, as part of doing a bunch of needed maintenance on the Titus (cables, bottom bracket, shock, etc) I replaced the seals on the Fox Float RP23 rear shock. Using the ~$15 OEM seal kit this was surprisingly easy to do. I followed along with this video from Fox and the actual work took less time than watching the video.
The most difficult part was removing the bottom bushings, but this was pretty easily done by holding them using a bench vise and some neoprene to keep the parts from being marred and gently rotating them while lifting on the shock. Pressing the bushings back into place was even easier, done just using the vise jaws and some more padding.
There is still another evening’s worth of work to go on the bike before I’ll be able to put the shock back on, but everything went well enough that I expect it’ll work fine. I’m more concerned about getting all the drivetrain bits put together and working right.