It should be a Big Improvement and I could Imagine about being Squirrely. Hey,Good Luck. I was going to try to Mount my New Tires Myself this Weekend. Steve....................
On Jul 15, 11:38 am, [email protected] wrote: > I'm going to reseal my forks this weekend. That should greatly improve the > handling. One fork leaks much more than the other. > I don't get speed wobble's , but it's pretty squirrely on curve's > Jul 15, 2009 10:26:29 AM,[email protected]: > I have mine set at the Highest Setting too and still feels Soft. Mine > never bottomed out as you say yours do and I weigh 225 Lbs and even > after Disassembling them and replacing the Bushings and Stops they > still don't. I've also Replaced the Old Fork Springs with New ones by > Progressive that I got from Dennis Kirk and I use Bel-Ray 10 wt. Fork > Oil and I run 4 lbs. of Air Pressure in my Forks. All this work is a > Improvement and as I mentioned before this was a Big Complaint with > these Bikes. Sounds like you had no luck with the Shocks from E-Bay. > Look at it this way, the ones from JC Whitney are New and would have > to be an Improvement also. > Steve............................... > On Jul 15, 9:23 am,[email protected]: > > I bought them on e-bay because the original's were shot > > Jul 15, 2009 02:24:48 AM,[email protected]: > > Have you Adjusted your Shock Preload? The Suspension on the 550 > > Nighthawk wasn't the Great to begin with. The Factory Shocks on the > > 550 Nighthawk are VHD and have Five Preload Settings. Mine were not > > Leaking either, so I removed mine and Paid the Local Shop here $ 5.00 > > a Shock to Compress and Disassemble them for me. Then I Checked the > > Spring Length and found them to be in Spec according to my Shop Manual > > and I Ordered New Bushings and Bump Stops from Bike Bandit and > > Replaced them. I had them Reassembled and it seemed to help. I also > > found a low Mile Pair on E-Bay and did the same to have an extra > > Pair. Steve.................................... > > On Jul 14, 2:57 pm,[email protected]: > > > I was looking at JC Whitney, they have em' for $80 (not sure of the > > > quality) > > > Someone told me to check the swing-arm bushing's? > > > I went to a salvage yard & all they had were some rusty 750 shocks for $70 > > > Any suggestion's folks? > > > Thanks - > > > Bernie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
