>From: "��� Blanco Muchacho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Thinking about dropping the front end about an inch... The front end is
>all
>stock... Is it as simple as it looks?... Looks as if all I do is support
>the bike, loosen the allen screws on the upper and lower clamps, drop an
>inch and tighten the screws... Do I have to reservice the forks, let air
>in/out, etc?... Looking for the KISS principle...
If your doing it on your 85 model, it's not that easy. The air equalizer
assemblies below the top triple clamps wont allow sliding the inner fork
tubes up. You would have to seal the air holes in the inner tubes which are
under the equalizer rings, probably by welding or possibly JBweld if it was
really clean.
Now if it's on a 93 and up model... Just slide those babies up in the clamps
and watch your front fender/radiator clearance.
The alternate and preferable method would be to add a 1" spacer between the
dampener rod and the fork inner tube (where the dampener 'topping-out'
spring is located), and removing a corresponding amount from the spacer tube
which is on top of the main fork spring (which, of course, would be 1").
This method will also allow an additional amount of inner tube/slider
overlap which should reduce fork flex by some immeasurable amount.
Of course, the down side to the second method is you have to take the fork
tubes apart (a good time to replace the seals).
Greg
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