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#MARZOCCHI BOMBER Z5 SEAL KIT SERIES#

So most comon this alternate seals do not hold the preassure, I heart this from a lot of bike shops, when they tried such alternates.

Others – there are others as well which you might get from your local hydraulic shop matching the geometry closly and for sure they are oil and heat resistant as they are for industrial use, but for sure they are not made for your Marzocchi Bomber 😉.

Wipe Seal: SR Suntour FAA070-10 for SF10, SF11, XCM-V2 / XCM-V3 / SF17NCX-D Gabeln) But the outer diameter is only 38 instead of 40mm. The wipe seal itself is good : stiff and well designed.

Suntour – some claimed this 30mm seals as an alternative, but it isn’t.

I found different dimension details from sellers for product ARI-020: 30mm x 40mm x 7/9mm vs. the wipe seal does not have a 2nd dust lip in the inside! They also do marketing with a ‘special oil seal lubricant’ – make your own statement here 😉 A pair of oil seals is about 20 – 50€, it heavy differs on the market. They are not as firm as the original and do not have the propper geometry, e.g.

Ariete ‘ARI’ – Ariete claims to be best and makes a big thing about XNBR and production in Italy, but in real life the seals – oil seals only – are not this worth this big bubble.

Obviously they didn’t expect a big market on 30 and 32mm seals.Ī SKF kit (2 dust & 2 oil seals) is about 80€. As this is a worldwide well know manufacture they are producing very good seals, coloured them green and selling them for with a lot of marketing and big money.

SKF – did a lot of reproductions but for the newer fork types only starting with 35mm but NOT for 30 nor 32mm.

Enduro – this are seal kits for different stanchion diameter with a very special wipe seal: it is just a simple silicon seal, I believe it is just a cheap joke! It is an alternative when you don’t have a chance to get other ones.

They also included a 2nd lip in the inside of the wiper seals which makes the seal more functional protecting against dirt and water! This are the alternatives:

#MARZOCCHI BOMBER Z5 SEAL KIT SERIES#

Marzocchi designers did a great job when they designed the Z1, they learnt from the XC series and made the seals stiffer (you can see when trying to take the seals out of the castings). The Marzocchi seals are sceleton seals, means it has a metal sceleton inside to make the seal stiffer. They will work for a while and fail very early. Clearly such seals are not designed and produced for Marzocchi Bombers but for anything else. They lack on geometry, function or material.

Of course there are some alternatives on the market, but none of them does it’s job well.

I think I talked to most of them … but for sure they do services for such forks, as they are rocl solid! Fox did don’t care about older forks (XC series and older Bombers) and it’s spares – it’s a wellknown business thing that companies are interested in selling new goods only and expects the customer to throw their older ones away.įrom time to time you can find a Bomber service kit at Eb# or elsewhere in forums or other well know marketplaces – most often M-Arch type – but in general all the service stations, online shops and well known Marzocchi’s Shops like keep the rest of their seals for their own customer service needs. As you know Marzocchi went bankrupt some years ago another time and was taken by Tenneco 2008, later by Fox in 2015.

Status today (20200926) 30mm Bomber seals are almost sold out on earth (and on moon and mars they do not ride MTB!).