Hi all,
What is your experience, is it better and/or cheaper to re-chrome a vintage set of shock shafts, or replace with new? I've got a set of Konis I'm considering rebuilding, but one shaft is really bad while the other is good. Thank you,
Mick
last year when I needed to have my Fox gas shocks rebuilt, one of the shafts was badly damaged. I could have had it rechromed but it just did not make sense to me.. my buddy had a length of 1/2 shaft and he cut it to size and turned the ends in a lath.. it worked out good and the cost was fairly cheap. It is sort of like buying in bulk, when you buy or produce stuff in large quanities, it becomes a lot cheaper. Rechroming one shaft would be very expensive.. because there is alot to the process. As I understand, it must be ground down, plated several times, ground to size and then polished..
Thom Green,Still crazy after all these years!
76' 250 MC5 (orginal owner)
74'250 hare scrambler (project)
74' 1/2 440 maico
78' 440 maico
72' cr125 Husky (project)
93' RMx 250 suzuki
Some machine shops have crank ends redone, I'll bet shock shafts can be done also just be ready to pay the price!
Race tech charges $200.00 per shaft! there may be a chrome plate repair shop in the Cleveland area here to do these for less.
I work at a Cat dealer here in Tn and we use a company called High Tech Chrome to do all our hydraulic cylinder rods.
They did a set for me a while back. Not sure what it was? I am thinking something like 100 dollars?
Blessings
Doug