Shovelhead rear shock dissasembly

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Mar 31, 2015 | 03:00 PM

Williamshovel

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Shovelhead rear shock dissasembly

Hello!

I've got a FLH shovel -84 that I wanted to lower a fair bit by modding the rear shocks, in order to get it looking somewhat like this;

I assume the owner of shown bike has either made the shocks rigid or decreased the length of the springs.

Now to my problem, I have a shovelhead manual that shows an 'exploded' view of the rear shocks, and a short guide on how to dissasembly it, I'm too stupid to understand so I'm throwing out a few questions along the way in this thread.

It says in the manual to remove the upper spring retainer while having the shock compressed, I assume that's the ring shown in this picture (?)
I don't seem to get it off, any ideas?

this is the shock whilst being compressed

Anyone able to help with through this?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Williamshovel; Mar 31, 2015 at 03:24 PM.

Mar 31, 2015 | 03:12 PM

wuzfuz

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Buy some $89 11 shocks from e-bay.
WUZFUZ

Mar 31, 2015 | 03:38 PM

Joe12RK

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welcome to the forum. I suppose buying anything in Sweden gets expensive.

So, to disassemble the shock, you aren't compressing it right - you have to push the chrome cover down away from the top eye. the ring will then slip out - the slot is for the shaft. Are you going to cut the spring to lower the bike? Cheap, but could cause problems with bottoming out.

after you do this, you will need a case saver to keep the chain from eating thru your inner primary/starter mount...

also, while the bike you are copying looks badass, don't copy the exhaust pipes - from everything I've read, shovelheads don't like real short pipes...