SAP71
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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.
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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.
What did you do to your venture today?
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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.