Rear shock disassembly and/or rebuild?

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Looks like I will need new rods.....

.... Use JB weld on the rods and reassemble with a rebuild kit? What say y'all?

for fun/science, you could try it. but, you'd need to have a way of making sure the surface is absolutely, spotlessly clean. and, you'd need to use something like this:

https://www.permatex.com/products/adhes ... eld-epoxy/

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There are a lot of shocks that look similar from the outside but hard to know if they are the same on the inside. The parts book shows Mach 1 (and all other models) as Marzocchi not Telesco. We're the mid '60s narrow case shocks all the same thing, just open chrome springs or covered?

Thanks.
Jim

Yes, and no. Externally, little to go by. Internally, so far I've found at least three (maybe four; lost count) different variations of damping parts on the 'big' bikes (250, 350) and two for the littler bikes (125,160, 175). I'm doing a set of 175 dampers currently.