I've watched this dude several times... looks like a good tutorial. I just need to nut up and do it.

 

Well I didn't have any issues with the 12mm seat pipe bolt. I used 2 small pieces of wood and my bench vise to hold the forks while I broke the bolts loose. I only have an electric impact gun and it wouldn't break the bolts loose.

The first issue I had was a pretty lame one actually. The freaking dust seal!!! I was using a new screw driver to try to gently pry the first one loose when it slipped and scratched the **** out of my fork tube!! Lucky for me the suspension was full compressed placing the scratch above the seal line so it wont leak. My first tip would be to us a thinner standard screwdriver. The one I used was blunt. I sharpened it on the concrete making it thin enough to get between the seal and fork lower and gently pried it off. It's a stupid rookie mistake that very few would make but I made it.

The next rookie mistake I made was forgetting to remove that 12mm seat pipe bolt after I drained the oil. I was using the side hammer technic to remove the fork seal and it wasn't coming apart. The 12mm bolt was still holding everything together!!

The next thing was the seal driver. I bought a universal seal driver that was supposed to be good up to 50mm forks. The slide didn't fit the 49mm forks. I had to use the driver from the kit, a piece of PVC pipe & a mallet I had to drive the seal down. It worked but was a waste of money considering I could've made a seal driver out of PVC for way way less.

Other than that its really an easy task to do. I bought the syringe tool for the fork oil level which made it a piece of cake to get the oil level right. Having an extra set of hands helps when trying to thread the cap back on when you are ready to reassemble. Take your time and you'll be golden. I made it way harder than it needed to be because I had never worked on suspension before. I could do it in my sleep now. If you run into any issues or have any questions shoot me a PM.

Nice bike!! Looks really good. I definitely need more powder, haha.

 

Yeah that does look like a pretty good tutorial. Wish I had seen it before hand, haha.

 

If you like to work on your bike, the best investment you can make is buying the harley manual for your bike, that's what I did, a 60 dollar investment has saved me at least a couple of grand in labor.

 

Lowers look great. But I have to ask...is the angle of those apes actually comfortable at all?

 

Hahaha, funny you mention that. I set them up way forward from where they were before. I jumped on and took it out for a 7 mile ride to test the suspension. It felt kinda cool but wasn't really practical to leave them that far. I pulled them back about 4 inches. Feels a lot more comfortable now. Its still not inline with the forks but its no longer straight up and down.

 

I had a feeling when I saw them that they wouldn't stay that way for long if you rode for any long distance. I've played with the angle of the mini apes on my WG a bit, but much forward of fork angle just hurts my shoulders after not long.

 

looks awesome. I might rip my front end apart when I get home and have the trees and lowers coated.

 

Your lowers look good. I've been wanting to do my trees, just haven't had the time. Maybe now winter has arrived, I'll get started.

 

If I was going back to AZ, I would take you up on your offer! I am headed to Fort Lewis, Washington though.

I appreciate it, anyway!