> roots to wings wrote:
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> Please forgive my stupidity but i am missing something on this mod. i
> had an old set of forks off a bike and when i compress them with all my
> weight, the the outside black dust cover goes almost all the way to the
> axle nut (within an inch or so), so if i did the mod, wouldn't that make
> me bottom out on the axel nut? Maybe i'm not understanding how the fork
> mechanism actually works. The jolting clunk I occasionally feel from
> stock maxi forks doesn't seem like it's happening when the forks are
> fully compressed...
Yeah, they are not supposed to compress that far. Sounds like you have some clapped/snapped springs.