a while back i got a SP shock for my 21, i have never managed to find someone who can get the damn spring off for me as it is well chipped, and i wanna put the one from my R on it.
does anyone know where i can get this done?
i have tried myself to no avail.......probably a good thing
please help i want my 21 shock on for june and as i am gonna be whipping the carbs off soon and getting her ready for the summer i thought it would be good to do em at the same tiime _________________ MC21SP - Roth-tax
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If you can't get the correct tool, or find a friendly shop to swap the spring for you, go get yourself some heavy duty cable-ties - the 8-10mm wide ones...
A few of those compressing some of the coils will be enough to slip the collar up and allow you to remove the big circlip-type-thing holding it all together.
Only compress 3 or 4 coils with each cable-tie, and pull them tight evenly.
andy i have tried this and ended up chipping the paint all over the sp spring not a problem as the R one is going on, but if i am honest doing it without the proper tools scares the living crap out of me , i keep thinking at any second its gonna pull my fingers off on the way to bouncing off my face. _________________ MC21SP - Roth-tax
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MC21SP - sold
Funnily enough I swaped the rear spring on the TRX on Sunday, spring compressor was £10 from a motor factors, it wouldn't fit over the spring properly for the damper body so I chopped the ends of the spring compressor hooks off for clearance.
Job took minutes.
nigel wrote:if your not far from him sure graeme france would do it for you
he s in brigg north lincs
i never thought about going and seeing graham, i,ve been to his place befor, he's got a sweeeet 28SP donchaknow.
cheers guys i will give him a call.
snagger was this a car spring clamp you were using?? £10 is less than the petrol to brigg. _________________ MC21SP - Roth-tax
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Yep, just a bog standard car spring compressor, got mine from the local motor factor's.
Like I say, I needed to chop a bit off each "hook" to save chewing up the damper body. Otherwise dead simple!
i have a mate who ownes Granby motors bike shop in notts, i was sure i had asked him befor but my old fella was in there the other day and asked him about it and he said drop it in, so i gotta clean it all up and then get the shock and spring of off my R and away we go. _________________ MC21SP - Roth-tax
CBR400 - track
MC21R - sold
MC21SP - sold
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