Okay, I managed to snap some shots of my bicycle. It's rather beaten up and I didn't know about the rust on the fork behind the rubber cuffs. But I looked at the bottoms of the shocks and they DO have drainage holes.



Tops of the forks, debris may have gotten trapped in the lip of the rubber cuff and caused the abrasions here. Can some sanding and rust preventative paint fix this?


Here are the bottoms of the shocks. Should I tape over/plug these holes, then fill the shocks with oil and let it sit for 24 hours? Or should I jut pour the oil and let it drain through?


And here is a model of what I saw when I removed the caps and looked in the tops of the towers. My camera couldn't photograph that deep into the stack, so I improvised.


Comments appreciated and needed.