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upgraded shocks and springs

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The 1100 16v is a straight fit where the 1000 goes... the 1000 drops straight into the 750E's... so I just extrapolated. Not tried it. TKent might have.... :D
 
TCK is right the 8v 750 is a fun and really tough motor. i do like it. just every now and then when a newer bike blasts by you it makes you wish for a bit more. ill start looking into those emulators. do you just put them in or is their tuning involved? im figuring tuning is involved. and yes my bike is a 750L.
 
Once the damper rods are drilled you set them and ride. Additional tuning is easy, just remove the fork caps (bike supported) fish out with grabber or magnet, adjust and drop back in...

10w or 15w oil will be about right for rebound, you can try it and see. A fork oilchange is simple too.
 
which spring set do you think i should get? sonic offers them in .90kg, 1.00kg, and 1.10kg. i'm around 180lbs.
 
will do! thanks!
salty mentioned you (cowboy) were in the middle of putting some emulators on yours. hows that going?
 
I'm waiting on some orings to come in before I can finish up mine. I'll include the info in my project thread (81 550t in Co Sprgs) once I'm done (hopefully next week).
 
when measuring the forks to find out what size you have(34, 35 ,37mm etc.) where do u measure? everywhere i've looked say i should have 35 mm. forks. i used a caliper to measure the o.d. of the upper fork tubes ( the part that goes in the triple tree) and it measures 37mm. is that the right measurement?
 
shinzon1 said:
when measuring the forks to find out what size you have(34, 35 ,37mm etc.) where do u measure? everywhere i've looked say i should have 35 mm. forks. i used a caliper to measure the o.d. of the upper fork tubes ( the part that goes in the triple tree) and it measures 37mm. is that the right measurement?
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It's possible someone has switched out your forks and tree with something from a bigger bike (the 850 and up had 37mm forks) can you take a pic of your front end for us? They should be 35mm but if someone switched em out that's an upgrade already ;) they're obviously a bit beefier. You can also call and tell them the ID measurement, plus the OD measurement to assure they send you the right stuff. Alot of them use the same springs from progressive whether they're 35mm or 37mm just the length and spring rates are different
 
well for some reason it won't let me post the pictures.
 
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Your best bet is to pull one of the springs out and measure the OD of the spring itself, and measure the length. Progressive has a nice doc here:

http://www.progressivesuspension.com/pdfs/7100-105.pdf

Which charts all the different spring models, including diameters, length, and spring rates. Pick what you think you'll like. Since yours is an L model, it's almost assured you can't find a spring too long: find the longest spring and just use PVC pipe to take up the slack, plus add pre-load.
 
i still need seals and i'd like to get some new dust boots as well. i've looked at a couple of parts breakdowns and they look closer but still not right. most everything i look at that is larger than a 750 shows to have the air valve at the top and a snap ring holding the seal in. i can tell u that mine doesn't have the air valve and uses a wire retainer instead of a snap ring to hold the seal. i'd like to know what these forks came from or atleast to narrow it down to a few years and models. so i can order the correct parts.
 
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Go to BikeBandit.com or similar site and use their parts fiches for your model and year to see an exploded view of your models forks and see if they look the same. Your 8 valve "L" model was only made in 79 so it's possible they used some different stuff (perhaps off the 79 1000L model?) than other 8v 750s. Suzuki was good, or bad, for that, depending on how you want to look at it. Either way, RustyBronco brings up a good point as far as sorting the correct spring for the job;) much easier andore direct than my way lol You're so darn smart Dale ;)
 
i use bikebandit all the time. they are great! looking at there partsfiche for the 750L it looks right. but the seal doesn't have any measurements for it.
 
something else i noticed on racetechs website is that all the emulators have the same part number. i'll looked up several bikes. some with 35mm and some with 37mm and all of them use the same part number for their emulators. how can that be? i would think that different size forks would require different size emulators.
 
shinzon1 said:
i use bikebandit all the time. they are great! looking at there partsfiche for the 750L it looks right. but the seal doesn't have any measurements for it.
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Well you could measure the seal in them now with calipers. If you planned on pulling them out first of course. You want to measure OD, ID and depth (important as they changed them here and there)
Or you might try calling Z1Enterprises and talk to Jeff or Rob or Chris and see if they can help you. Then again they have the seals on their site and they might list measurements for them.
 
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