I just did my road glide. I removed my forks and my indy changed the internals. I also had the front wheel and rotors powder coated. I bought the Motion Pro socket for the top of the forks, I would recommend that for $12, or borrow one.
I had my indy do the fork internal change due to time, basketball season. The biggest PIA was the ignition switch. Had to break out the flat screwdriver to get it back in

 

Thanks, I have the Fork Seal Driver set from when we rebuilt my sons Dirt Bike forks, and I have full set of Allen Drive sockets. But I love buying tools and I looked at the Jims Fork Cap tool but I can make one on the mill this winter for free so I will do that in my spare time.:-)

 

I made the fork tool out of pvc that I slightly ground the edge to make it fit. forks are not bad just take your time and take pictures so as to know how it goes back together. I did mine when fork seal started leaking so I upgraded to chrome lowers and installed new seals.

 

i recommend not doing this job twice. do the monotones at the same time and it won't be as difficult. when i did my 2010, i did most of the job in less than 2 hrs. the part that took the other 4 hrs (at least) was getting the fork cap screw started. i tried so many ways to do it, and by the time i was done, the palms of my hands looked like hamburger. and i was wearing wearing gloves with gel inserts. with the monotubes, you won't have as much spring pressure working against you putting that cap back on.

and, another ***** shiny satisfied customer here.

 

Yep PVC works ... and I use to use the swagger on the shop tubing bender to make them out of scrap exhaust tubing ... quick and easy too

 

Mine had the monotubes previously, then swapped to the new ones. I would have liked to have done it myself but during this time of the year its just not happening.

As for cutting a socket, I guess it would work. I love buying tools also, but Im not cutting a snap on socket. I'd cut a HF one though. Just got a brand new display set of knuckle savers, made before the buyout of mac, metric set. They are really nice.

 

the plan is to do the monotubes, and install the ***** Shiny Forks,,,,,going in once, I watched a few videos, looks like a very straight forward deal without a need for special tools, we rebuilt my sons KX250 dirt bike engine and boy oh boy, I could not believe how many special tools were required to get it apart and back together. As mentioned, we rebuilt his for tube as well and it was messy, but not difficult. I can post pics if necessary but YouTube has a couple of good vids to watch that are pretty good

 

The only thing I had to have done was compress one of the springs, I did the HD premium low cartridge but just couldn't get the one side compressed to get the cap on. Took to local HD and they charged 1/2 hour $45.

 

I will echo others here. Do the suspension upgrade while you have them off, it's worth it