Well, I just went over to the Marzocchi website. They have a manual for the Shivers. This shit is beyond me. Since it is my life that is in the hands of these forks, I am going to remove them and send them out. I am going to call Marzocchi USA tomorrow and see if they can fix them, or send me somewhere that can. This sucks, big time.
Mike
I wouldn't waste my time with marzocchi. I called them (ca location) looking for parts and they kinda had an attitude like "sucks to be you"
If you want to do it yourself, it's not really all that bad. I just went through it a few weeks ago. All you need to do is remove your forks. Loosen the 3 clamps and you can slowly slide them out of the triples. Then take them to any local shop that will disassemble them for you. You need to tell them that they are 50mm. They may need to get special tools as they are probably not used to operating on forks of this caliber. Most jap stuff goes to about 48mm.
Then, once you have the lug (the gold part that the axle secures to) separated from the fork tube (the silver part that inserts into the golden lug), take them both to a machinist and have him chase the threads. My machinist put my lug in a lathe and was able to fix it with only loosing a few threads. Once you have it apart, you will see why it failed. If it was like mine, the tube was never threaded into the bottom of the lug. You can tell this cause the bottom threads are still gold in color and not silver like the others that have been used. Mine was shy of bottoming into the lug by approx. half an inch. :hmmm: WTF marzocchi? Anyway, There is a rubber seal on the bottom of the tube that sits neatly in a relief in the bottom of the lug...if it is threaded all the way down.
Once your threads are fixed, take it all back to your local shop for re-assembly. If you think you may ever need to take it apart again, upon re-assembly, and before setting the set screw, you can drill into the tube so the threads don't get damaged.
Just to let you know, marz. quoted me $575 ea per lower fork leg, and that is just parts, I dont know what their labor is. I paid my machinist $50 and Ohlins another $200 and they work better than they ever did.
Good luck with all of it. And call me if you need specifics. Seriously, I just went through this about 3 weeks ago so its all fresh in my brain.