Shock Adjusting tool
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From: Nashville, TN
RE: Shock Adjusting tool
ORIGINAL: thomasf59
SportyPig.
You got an ash tray on that sporty? I see you ride with a smoke in your mouth.
Tom
SportyPig.
You got an ash tray on that sporty? I see you ride with a smoke in your mouth.
Tom
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From: Woodstock, GA
RE: Shock Adjusting tool
I've got the saddlebag support brackets installed and wasted the $10 or whatever on the shock spanner wrench. Impossible to get the right angle and do any adjusting - the dang support brackets are always right where I need to be twisting! Think I'll switch to those high tech channel locks as well!
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RE: Shock Adjusting tool
STOP!! Don't file or modify that shock wrench. I'd DESIGNED that way!!. I had just bought the same wrench the other day and had not used it yet. Read these posts and checked my wrench. Sure enough, it did NOT fit the radius of the shock adjuster ring. Got out my files and went to work trying to make the tool EXACTLY fit the radius of the adjuster ring on the shock.
THEN IT HIT ME!! The tool is DESIGNED to have a gradually decreasing radius so that the only two points of contact are the "hook" end and the "tail" end. The hook does the work...the tail end does the bracing....everything in between is of no consequence at all.....the tool is not meant to "grip" the radius of the shock. The tool is designed so it hooks at one end and braces at the other end. Contact in the "middle" only tends to see-saw the hook out of the notch on the shock.
Although I made mine a nearly exact fit to the radius by a hour of filing it did no harm. The tool works fine. But it "would have" worked fine right out of the package......with the decreasing radius design which doesn't contact the shock adjuster ring in the middle.
THEN IT HIT ME!! The tool is DESIGNED to have a gradually decreasing radius so that the only two points of contact are the "hook" end and the "tail" end. The hook does the work...the tail end does the bracing....everything in between is of no consequence at all.....the tool is not meant to "grip" the radius of the shock. The tool is designed so it hooks at one end and braces at the other end. Contact in the "middle" only tends to see-saw the hook out of the notch on the shock.
Although I made mine a nearly exact fit to the radius by a hour of filing it did no harm. The tool works fine. But it "would have" worked fine right out of the package......with the decreasing radius design which doesn't contact the shock adjuster ring in the middle.
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From: Plymouth UK
RE: Shock Adjusting tool
ORIGINAL: wardjs
STOP!! Don't file or modify that shock wrench. I'd DESIGNED that way!!. I had just bought the same wrench the other day and had not used it yet. Read these posts and checked my wrench. Sure enough, it did NOT fit the radius of the shock adjuster ring. Got out my files and went to work trying to make the tool EXACTLY fit the radius of the adjuster ring on the shock.
THEN IT HIT ME!! The tool is DESIGNED to have a gradually decreasing radius so that the only two points of contact are the "hook" end and the "tail" end. The hook does the work...the tail end does the bracing....everything in between is of no consequence at all.....the tool is not meant to "grip" the radius of the shock. The tool is designed so it hooks at one end and braces at the other end. Contact in the "middle" only tends to see-saw the hook out of the notch on the shock.
Although I made mine a nearly exact fit to the radius by a hour of filing it did no harm. The tool works fine. But it "would have" worked fine right out of the package......with the decreasing radius design which doesn't contact the shock adjuster ring in the middle.
STOP!! Don't file or modify that shock wrench. I'd DESIGNED that way!!. I had just bought the same wrench the other day and had not used it yet. Read these posts and checked my wrench. Sure enough, it did NOT fit the radius of the shock adjuster ring. Got out my files and went to work trying to make the tool EXACTLY fit the radius of the adjuster ring on the shock.
THEN IT HIT ME!! The tool is DESIGNED to have a gradually decreasing radius so that the only two points of contact are the "hook" end and the "tail" end. The hook does the work...the tail end does the bracing....everything in between is of no consequence at all.....the tool is not meant to "grip" the radius of the shock. The tool is designed so it hooks at one end and braces at the other end. Contact in the "middle" only tends to see-saw the hook out of the notch on the shock.
Although I made mine a nearly exact fit to the radius by a hour of filing it did no harm. The tool works fine. But it "would have" worked fine right out of the package......with the decreasing radius design which doesn't contact the shock adjuster ring in the middle.
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From: Boynton Beach, FloriDuh
RE: Shock Adjusting tool
ORIGINAL: thomasf59
cHarley
After you installed your progressive shocks did you have to re-adjust your drive belt?
Thanks
Tom
cHarley
After you installed your progressive shocks did you have to re-adjust your drive belt?
Thanks
Tom