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Old 01-24-2004, 12:58 PM
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Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
Anyone swapped their own springs in the 600RR forks? It appears to not take a tool like a USD fork will, but has anyone done it successfully. I normally send my stuff to dan, but I am gonna just swap springs first and see how it goes before I do a whole fork job.

Anyone? Tips and pointers would be nice too...

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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
I did my 929 forks without special tools. Most forks with dampening rods will be the same procedure, you just need to compress the spring dow enough to slip a wrench in so you can unscrew the top of the dampener.
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
Try a service manual It should say in there
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
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Try a service manual It should say in there
Know where I can get one online??
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
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Know where I can get one online??
Not a clue. Does Ron Ayers have it yet? I know guys over on .net were passing around not so legal copies of it, so there has to be hard copies somewhere
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
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Not a clue. Does Ron Ayers have it yet? I know guys over on .net were passing around not so legal copies of it, so there has to be hard copies somewhere
Yeah, I wanna buy a hard copy...
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Yeah, I wanna buy a hard copy...
Here you go, I just bought one

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=2456365 399

EDIT: No, I didn't...I just saw the "replica"
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
For anyone interested...

I did a lot of research on fork jobs for the RR and after weighing all the info I could find, I decided to go with a DK job on the front end and a penske rear. We'll see how it goes. I had a DK fork job on my 929 and an ohlins rear, and a Traxxion front end on my RC with a penske rear. I hope to get the forks off the bike by monday sometime. The worst thing about working with dan kyle is he's in CA and I am in NC. So shipping is either super expensive or still "expensive" and slow... sigh. Oh well, february is a better time to do it than any other time, so here goes...
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
If it'll make you feel better CCwilli, I shipped my forks to Dan last Feb and I got them back pretty quickly. And, shipping from NJ was only around $12. I went to a UPS customer service location had them shipped directly from there rather than using a 3rd party like Mailboxes Etc. which, IMO, charges way too much.
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
Thanks HG,

DK is da man! He turns forks around quickly. Thing is, for me, its ground, (which is 6 working days) for less than $20 or so, or $30+ for 3 day air... Not trusting UPS like I do, I prefer to not have the forks in their possesion on a truck for too long, so whether I need them or not, I will probably get them sent air both ways... Sigh. Oh well, at least they'll be RIGHT when I get them back!
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Re: Spring Swap on a Conventional fork?
FYI, I did this and it was no problem without any special tools on a conventional fork.

Anyone need specifics, feel free to PM or email me, but its easy...
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