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Skinstains
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 04:09 pm: | 
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Hey Suga,
Got you covered. I have a couple of those rings in my li'l box of doom. Give me your address and I'll have them in the mail tomorrow.
You NEED to buy the service, parts and electrical manuals for that bike. My SM shows the ring going in the upper of two slots machined into the tube.
For what it's worth, I have the rings in my li'l box of doom because I take them off all my bikes. You don't need them. I also have a stock shock for that bike if you need one because the prev. owner swapped it out for a shorter one. |
Uly_man
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:13 am: |
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"Every XB and 1125 has the retaining clips." Strange as neither of my bikes had them. I have never seen them on any other bike either in the UK either. Maybe it is something for the US market? |
Hughlysses
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 12:05 pm: |
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Mark- have you removed the fork tubes and looked? The clips are concealed just inside the lower opening on the upper triple clamp when the fork tubes are installed; if you've never pulled the fork tubes you probably wouldn't see them. |
Uly_man
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 12:35 pm: |
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Hughlysses. There is nothing on the outside of the upper part of my forks. Which may be part 11 (as per the part number) stated here.
(Message edited by uly_man on August 15, 2013) |
Uly_man
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 12:42 pm: |
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I looked at my forks and found the right hand one 1 mm higher than the left hand one. I can slide the fork upper section to most any place I want without restriction from any clips or stops.
Made an adjustment and torqued it up to spec. It was nothing much but it may as well be right. |
Mark_weiss
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 08:50 pm: |
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Part #11 it is. There are three grooves on the outside of my '08 X's forks. The upper two are quite shallow and are the ones that are visible above the yoke. The third groove is considerably deeper and is the one that is just hidden up into the underside of the yoke. It is this third groove, where the ring resides.
Makes fork installation extremely easy and accurate. Just slide the fork assembly up until the ring bottoms (tops?) out in the upper yoke. Forks are aligned! |
