Fox shock rebuild

 During a few hours of really strenuous trail riding, the Fox shock on
my R100GS spat out maybe a spoonful or so of heavy oil.

Pretty obviously the shock's ready for a rebuild, but the question
is how soon. Since I still have damping and it's not continuing
to leak, I assume this probably was a single event when the
suspension bottomed out.

I hate to lay the bike up in the middle of good riding weather.
Any thoughts on what happened or urgency of an immediate
rebuild ?

Also, any experience with Works shocks ? I may have a line
on a good Works unit as a temporary or permanent replacement.

TIA

 

Compression pressure was too high and the foot valve couldn't deal
with it.

The urgency of repairs on anything mechanical depends upon your own
state of mind...


They work great. I have a set with the dual adjustable springs and the
velocity sensitive balls that are an alternative to a shim stack.

 perhaps they were overfilled to the point that at bottoming the fluid had
no-where to go but out?
I can't recall which brand, but the aftermarket shocks all failed (3 bikes)
during a short stretch on Ewan and Charlie's Africa trip.I believe they had
only brought along one stock one as a spare. ( A sharp contrast to the first
trip, where they took the "eveything but the kitchen sink" approach) If it
has stopped leaking , maybe all is OK?