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Old Oct 18, 2008 | 03:51 PM
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Had a day to myself today. Very rare with a Wife and a daughter. Anyway, decided I was going to install the lowering kit for the rear and the Progressive lowering kit for the front. After I got the front apart, easier than I thought it would be, I decided to keep the lowers off and send them out to get powder coated. The rears were another story, I got them both out after many choice words and I found it easy enough to compress the spring and remove the lock ring. That's where the easy part stopped. Taking the studs off the shock itself is some fight. I gave in and ordered progressive 422's. I'm dropping the front 1" and the rear will be 1 1/4". I'm gonna probably sell the lowering kit, shocks and a bikers choice softail shock compressor. Depending on the powder coater, it should be back together next weekend.
 
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you won't be sorry with the 422's. they are an easy bolt on....look good too.
 
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you won't be sorry with the 422's. they are an easy bolt on....look good too.
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Here are a couple of pics , waiting for my powder coated lower sliders.
 
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Nice train, I dropped my *** end as soon as I bought mine. It rides a little rough, but it's so worth it!!!!
 
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nice selection on the progressive shocks. I was leaning towards that direction, but decided to go with the kit instead. I lowered my back by 2 inches and my front by 2 inches.
 
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just curious, what's it costin ya to get the powder coating done?
And after they are done, are you gonna keep the stock front fender?
 
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just curious, what's it costin ya to get the powder coating done?
And after they are done, are you gonna keep the stock front fender?
Is sent it out to a shop Final Touch Powdercoating. Found out about them here. It's only costing about $105.00 plus shipping. I used a guy close to home a few months ago to do my front wheel and had them install stainless twisted spokes. Wheel looks great but it's not worth the money i spent on it. It rides like an egg so I bought the six way spoke from harley. As for the front fender, I would like to get one that wraps around the rear of
the tire down low. Everything in time.
 
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Got the lowers back from powdercoat and installed the rear 422's along with a 1" drop in the front. I brought the rear fender down to the sidewall in the rear. You can tell from the photo's how the rear is dropped.
 
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