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Looks great

heres an article on it.  (full disclosure to form your own opinion). its sort of misleading as the bike was mostly together and complete.


https://www.bikebound.com/2023/03/26/bbrd/

The title of the article says it's "rolling art" though.

That's awesome! Looks like you had a blast. Thanks for taking the time to document and upload pics of the show.

hmmm, We should all buy one for Mark for his bday and smoke out his house.

 

Got my workbench clean, a pile of seals, tools, a beer and smokey the bandit on TV.
After disassembly, case halves and carbs go for vapor blast.

Wish me luck

I've driven in LA, NYC, Chicago which are terrible. Every summer I drive from St. Louis to Hilton Head, SC and go through Atlanta GA. If you ride a bike there, you've got balls of steel! I don't even feel safe in a car.

I cut the 1.5" off mine and just reassembled. There was no way the spacers were going back in. I also emailed John to be sure.

Hemi, I'm reassembling my fork tubes right now and i'm also using the progressive springs. On both Economy and HVC site it says to cut the springs 1.5". I have cut mine.

However, there is no mention of not using the spacers. With the top fork tube fully compressed into the lower tube, I have about 4" of spring sticking out. With the top fork tube fully extended, my spring is not exposed at all. In fact, it's about 1.5" down inside the tube.

I figured it out. For future reference in case anyone runs into the same issue. The tapered side does face down.

I'm getting ready to reassemble my forks. Which way does this part go? Believe it's called a piston. I think tapered side (left) faces down but don't remember. I was so pissed off trying to the bottom bolt out I wasn't paying attention.

Pretty sure I have a pile of spare damper parts including some rods. These can be hard to come by. I will have a look if you want

That would be great! Please let me know

Found the problem
Someone who has been in here before me and broke off the part. Do I fix it or send it?

Guess I'll look on ebay

Well shit. It appears that the 2 forks don't have the same guts. The brake side has something that looks to be above the piece that I can get a cut socket on. Not sure if visible in pic.

Thanks for the suggestions. I got one out by compressing the fork with a ratchet strap and using an impact foward and reverse, that works on one. Now I need a longer sacrificial Allen wrench to cut for the other side which I'll grab from work tomorrow.