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the
engine of the Electraglide is now broken in, the only
problem I had is that I kept having to adjust the front
exhaust valve. It turns out the hydraulic unit was defective,
after replacing it all is fine now. Next job: lowering
the bike! The first pic below here is the "before"
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Lowering
the rear is very easy, there are a couple of options.
On my old Cadbike 31 I relocated the lower shockmounts
on the swingarm, on this bike I simply replaced the stock
12" shocks with a set of new 11"shocks. Shortening
the shocks 1" lowers the rear of the bike about 40
mm. Front suspension is a lot more work, I had ordered
a Burly lowering kit but somehow got the wrong set. Looking
at how the lowering kit works I figured it would be easy
enough to just make my own set.
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I
ground off 30 mm from each forkspring, taking care to
get a nice flat end at the end of the springs. I then
machined a couple of 30 mm spacers on the lathe that fit
around the fork dampener, preventing the fork to extend
fully. The fork lowering kits from Burly use a short spring
instead of this spacer and replace the original forkspring
with a shortened version. In the pics below you can see
how dirty some of the internal parts of my forks were
and also how much I cut off the springs.
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Bike
is back together again and seems to ride fine with the
lowered suspension. I definitely think the stance is better
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