a while back i got a SP shock for my 21, i have never managed to find someone who can get the damn spring off for me as it is well chipped, and i wanna put the one from my R on it.
does anyone know where i can get this done?

i have tried myself to no avail.......probably a good thing

please help i want my 21 shock on for june and as i am gonna be whipping the carbs off soon and getting her ready for the summer i thought it would be good to do em at the same tiime
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If you can't get the correct tool, or find a friendly shop to swap the spring for you, go get yourself some heavy duty cable-ties - the 8-10mm wide ones...

A few of those compressing some of the coils will be enough to slip the collar up and allow you to remove the big circlip-type-thing holding it all together.

Only compress 3 or 4 coils with each cable-tie, and pull them tight evenly.

Andy.
NSR-WORLD.COM

andy i have tried this and ended up chipping the paint all over the sp spring not a problem as the R one is going on, but if i am honest doing it without the proper tools scares the living crap out of me , i keep thinking at any second its gonna pull my fingers off on the way to bouncing off my face.
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Hi monkey,

Couldn't you just buy a spring compressor?

Funnily enough I swaped the rear spring on the TRX on Sunday, spring compressor was £10 from a motor factors, it wouldn't fit over the spring properly for the damper body so I chopped the ends of the spring compressor hooks off for clearance.
Job took minutes.

Regard's Phil

if your not far from him sure graeme france would do it for you
he s in brigg north lincs
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nigel wrote:if your not far from him sure graeme france would do it for you
he s in brigg north lincs

i never thought about going and seeing graham, i,ve been to his place befor, he's got a sweeeet 28SP donchaknow.

cheers guys i will give him a call.


snagger was this a car spring clamp you were using?? £10 is less than the petrol to brigg.
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Hi Monkey.

Yep, just a bog standard car spring compressor, got mine from the local motor factor's.
Like I say, I needed to chop a bit off each "hook" to save chewing up the damper body. Otherwise dead simple!

Regards Phil

guess what...

its off woohoo, now i can clean up my SP shock and fit the spring from my R how bout that....

ok so your not that impressed........


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how did you get it off then?i take it you still have your fingers as you typed a post

i have a mate who ownes Granby motors bike shop in notts, i was sure i had asked him befor but my old fella was in there the other day and asked him about it and he said drop it in, so i gotta clean it all up and then get the shock and spring of off my R and away we go.
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its done the R spring is now on the SP shock and on the bike, just gotta tighten a few things upset the sag and i will be away

although there is the small matter that the carbs are off at the moment
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CBR400 - track
MC21R - sold
MC21SP - sold