rear shock disassembly

How do you take off the spring from a 1994 rc36-II once you have compressed the spring with an appropriate device?

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all I see are a very small hex screw on the part that contains the preload adjustment. it goes through the ring and inside the damper.

 

Step 1: Clean shock.

 

ound::lol: +1, clean that nasty girl up!!! Seriously though, according to the manual the shock and spring are serviced as an assembly leading me to belive there isn't a way to "disassemble" it with out basicailly breaking it and then modifying it to put it back together. Jamie Daughtery is the MAN to talk to regarding VFR suspension and may be able to help you if you have the right equipment. Otherwise I'm sure JD would be happy to swap the spring and do the needed mods for you as he does it for a living, or at least for a hell of a lot of us VFR owners for a reasonable price.

 

You have to compress the shock from the top. First step is to loosen the small set screw that keeps the preload adjuster from turning on the shock body. That's often the hardest part. The next step is to compress the spring by pushing down the preload adjuster assembly. This will expose a retaining ring. Remove that ring and the preload assembly and spring will come off in the direction of the upper mount.

You aren't trying to install the progressive rate spring, are you?

 

Sorry for butchering your name a bit sir :behindsofa:

 

Thanks for the info.
and yeah, I'm installing a progressive spring. you're not the only one against it, but I'll see how it works out

 

No worries, I'm used to it. The biggest problem is that people don't know how to pronounce it!