SSD Front forks

MartinMille BANNED · Post by **MartinMille BANNED** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:48 am

Hi All
Can someone tell me what weight and quantity the 38mm Marzochi forks take

MartinMille BANNED · Post by **MartinMille BANNED** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:54 am

DOH found it

should have had a look at some older posts 210cc 10w

Spub · Post by **Spub** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:37 am

I find these forks need more pre-load than the stock set up gives (of course, this could be said about just about any 70 or 80s fork). When I got my 80 Darmah SSD, I noted the front fork was much firmer than the stock set up that was on my 900SS, and when I took it apart, I noted someone had placed a 2" spacer between the fork cap and the spring (keep this in mind when removing the fork caps on any fork you are not familiar with, lest you get boinked in the face when the damn thing pops off). These seemed to work much better, but replacing the springs with dual rate Works Performance items and adjusted pre-load fork caps has really improved matters much more so. Now have this set up on both my 900SS and Darmah SSD....I realize all you originality folks out there are now screaming at your screens, but I tend to fall in the "practical upgrades are ok since I'm riding it" camp.....

MartinMille BANNED · Post by **MartinMille BANNED** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:52 am

LOL....I know just what you mean my set had a 2.5" spacers in them, knowing that from my track day we often used to do that, so it came to no surprise to me when the cap came away with force, be fun getting it back on after I get the S/steel fork tubes for the rebuild