air valve on t3 shock canister?

[Yamaha_Rules69]

I think I screwed up bigtime. Today I noticed that there was what looked to be an air valve to pump air into the rear shock on my 84 t3. Well knowing my dumb luck, I tired to pump air into it, thinking that it would stiffen it up a little. Well as I pumped the air in, I was looking at the shock, and I then I saw a bunch of oil come out. It was kind of gray in color. It kept comeing out, and there was even a little puddle of oil on the ground afterwards. What did I do to my shock? Was this valve for letting air out if it got in? Do you think I just blew a seal, or does it sound more serious? The oil appeared to be comeing out near the top of the shock cylinder. Let me know what I did. Man I feel so dumb. oops
Also, If I have to buy a rebuild kit, where is a good place to buy one, and how much do they run? I looked in dennis kirk, but didnt have any luck finding anything. Thanx again for your help.

[tecatecrazy]

first off that little valve is for charging the shock with nitrogen not air(air is not good because it contains moisture---moisture baaad). It also seems as though your oil seals are bad. I know very little about rear shocks and have been waiting for mr atc to give us a how to on how to rebuild them :D . You can buy parts for them still thru race-tech.com, but I would recommend having it professionally rebuilt. If you were able to pump air into then it was already shot before you tried to fix it yourself. I hope some of this helps.----Joe 8)

[Yamaha_Rules69]

Thanx for the info. Im pretty sure I did blow the seal when I put air in there, because I FORCED it to go in. I'll have to give race tech a look and see how much a rebuild kit would cost. Thanx.

[MR ATC]

"have been waiting for mr atc to give us a how to on how to rebuild them"





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