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Help! Front lowering kit,where can I find one?
At your hardware store or in an electricians toolbox!
I just did mine like this:
1. Pull forks apart completely.
2. Use electrical 32mm conduit glued into a 32mm coupling, then cut to 25mm length. Needs a little bit of filing on the outside to make it fit into the inner fork tube. I made it out of PVC conduit so it does not scratch anything inside. You can alternatively use anything the same diameter as the rebound damper spring.
3. This piece then sits above the rebound damper spring (at bottom end of forks) to basically make the forks sit 25mm lower.
4. Then the pre-load tube needs to be trimmed down. I cut mine 20mm shorter so that the bike has a little bit more pre-load than stock set-up.
5. Rebuild the forks and fill with 10W fork oil. Note the forks actually take approx 520mls of oil each, NOT 480 like the manuals says. I learned the hard way because I only bought 1-litre of oil and had to go out and get more.
Mine work excellent, so I'm glad I didn't 'fork' out for the progressive lowering kit.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Last edited by Runner0023; 03/10/2008 7:24 AM.
TBA, Stainless extractors / drag pipes, 65mm over forward controls, Thruxton needles, 904cc, head ported, lowered 1-inch, Console removed, relocated battery box, Australia.
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