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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 10:42 AM
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Default Progressive drop in front lowering kit

i dropped the rear of my bike about 2 inches last year with a set of lowering bolts. and this year i'm needing to drop the front. i was wondering if anyone has used this progressive drop in kit. from what it says you don't have to take the forks about and only takes about 30 min. i was just wondering how true that is. i had read on this forum somewhere before too that people say to change the fork oil with screamin eagle oil because it's alittle thick. what do you guys this? i changed the sliders on my bike last year and should have done this while i had them apart but didn't. i just put in regual harley shock oil when i put them back together last year.
 
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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 10:54 AM
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It depends on how the tubes go into the top of your tripletree on how easy it is. Check out this post by me.
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...-pictures.html






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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 11:29 AM
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I just did the drop-in kit. super fast and easy. take the old springs and and put the new set up in.
 
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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 12:29 PM
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It really is drop in on FX front end's but not for FL front ends.
 
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