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Greetings,
I recently installed Progressive's fine products on my 83I and love the improved ride. A couple of things that I did with the installation was 1. I put the air valve in the plastic that goes around the gas cap area. This way I can check and adjust the air while sitting on the bike without having to remove the side cover. It works very well. 2. Since I was routing the tubing to the valve along the frame on both sides, I took some clear 1/8" plastic tubing and ran the airline inside of it all the way from the shock to the valve. Then I gently wire tied the tubing to the frame. I was kind of surprise'd to see how tiny the air line is that came with the shocks and I was worried about rubbing a hole in it.
Another thing that I did for maintenance was to lube my clutch, throttle cables, tach and speedo and choke cable. I was in a quandry how to get the lube into the cables since the cables fit closely in their outer housings. I didn't have access to one of those gizmos that clamp on the end of the cable so I got tubing(really like the stuff) that would fit (about 3-4")over the piece on the end of the cable, clamped it down on the housing, positioned the cable(s) so they were pointing straight up and squirted some cable lube into the tubing and let gravity take over. After a little while the lube starts coming out at the other end. When it quit, I did it again. The second time the lube was much cleaner looking. Oh yeah, I did put a towel under the end that was dripping.:clapper:And of course, I didn't need to do allthat with the speedo and tach cables.
Just pulled the cables, wiped them down, flushed the housings and re-lubed.
:11red
she feels much better now!)
Hobie
Greetings,
I recently installed Progressive's fine products on my 83I and love the improved ride. A couple of things that I did with the installation was 1. I put the air valve in the plastic that goes around the gas cap area. This way I can check and adjust the air while sitting on the bike without having to remove the side cover. It works very well. 2. Since I was routing the tubing to the valve along the frame on both sides, I took some clear 1/8" plastic tubing and ran the airline inside of it all the way from the shock to the valve. Then I gently wire tied the tubing to the frame. I was kind of surprise'd to see how tiny the air line is that came with the shocks and I was worried about rubbing a hole in it.
Another thing that I did for maintenance was to lube my clutch, throttle cables, tach and speedo and choke cable. I was in a quandry how to get the lube into the cables since the cables fit closely in their outer housings. I didn't have access to one of those gizmos that clamp on the end of the cable so I got tubing(really like the stuff) that would fit (about 3-4")over the piece on the end of the cable, clamped it down on the housing, positioned the cable(s) so they were pointing straight up and squirted some cable lube into the tubing and let gravity take over. After a little while the lube starts coming out at the other end. When it quit, I did it again. The second time the lube was much cleaner looking. Oh yeah, I did put a towel under the end that was dripping.:clapper:And of course, I didn't need to do allthat with the speedo and tach cables.
:11red
Hobie