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Lowering a little

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by shangovi, Mar 30, 2012.

  1. shangovi

    shangovi Member

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    whats the best way to lower a 81 Maxim 650 a couple of inches without changing anything too drastically? I am around 5.5 and have often wanted just a little better balance when standing at a traffice light etc. :(
     
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    I lowered the forks by disassemblying them and cutting the spacer at the top of the fork 1.5" then adding a new 2" spacer on the dampening rod above the spring:

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    Here's the link to the write up I used to do mine:
    Lowering forks

    I also cut about 1.5 inches off the coils on my rear shocks, but I know others have used shorter shocks off ebay or honda rebel shocks.
     
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    Any chance you could fix that link? I'm considering doing this and the write up would really help
     
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    Sorry, didn't realize the link was broken. Here's one for an XS650, same concept just different fork setup than the XJ. And he cut the spring, where I cut the spacer that's at the top of the XJ forks.

    http://www.xs650.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5537
     
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