SAP71

The Progressive fork springs felt a lot better but it started missing. When I jammed my homemade throttle cable through the wrong route then yanked it out and jammed it through again it pulled on a plug wire. When I got to the coils and saw what the wires looked like I decided to install new ones. Ordered a plug wire set for a Suzuki Swift, a throttle cable for a 86 Gold Wing LTD, and an oil filter today. Gonna relocate the TCI like I read on this site while I'm waiting for them to arrive.

when I did the forks on my XS650 I welded a bolt into some steel tubing and bent a handle on the other end for a dampner tool. I didn't have acess to a welder yesterday so I tried this and it worked great. Taped it to the socket so I could pull it back out of the tubes. The bigger nut locked between the two smaller ones is a 5/8 (fits 15/16) socket. The other two nuts and bolt are 10mm (fits 17mm). I didn't have enough extensions to reach the dampner with the forks extended so I used bungee cords on the caliper mount holes to keep them compressed and zip tied the ratchet to the top tree to hold it in place the used a regular 10mm allen wrench and the hole in the handle of a cresent wrench as a cheater to break the dampner bolts loose.

Here's the version I came up with. 5/8" hex nut (fits 15/16 socket) locked between two 10mm hex nuts on a 10mm hex bolt (fit 17mm socket). I taped it to the socket so I could pull it out of the fork tubes when I used it to hold the dapmners. I didn't have a helper or a lot of extensions so I used bungee cords in the caliper mount holes to keep the forks compressed and zip tied the ratchet to the triple tree. It worked great. Plus no welding required.