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Im piecing together a 4 over 41mm front end for my FXST with 2005 touring legs and need to buy some tubes.
It appears in 2000 there was a change in fork tubes. Does anyone have 1st hand experience in using 84-99 fork tubes in later fork legs. The reason I ask is I can get some evo tubes here in Japan. In some of the vendors websites it shows it can.
Basically 97+ touring tubes will fit into any 97-13 touring sliders since all the sliding internals (i mean bushings, seals, etc are the same among these model years). Suspensions internals are quite different (top plugs, cartridge or conventional, air assisted or not, several different springs and damping rods) but all of them can be retrofitted too or replaced with aftermarket. 84-96 tubes might fit too as they also showa and utilize same rebuild kit as later so dimensions in the contact area would the same.
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41mm Fork Tube changes
