what you said is exactly what I said, and I know how to rebuild the shocks, I do them after every race, and also, you shouldn't really have to let them sit to let the air bubbles get out, the bubbles are fine as long as there aren't many of them, the shocks tend to act the same with few air bubbles as they do with none, and also, shock lenth does not matter to a certain extent, the shocks will level out as you run them, that is what Todd Hodge said in his forum a couple of months ago