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Ryan
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i noticed most of you had to use stoppers in order for the fork tubes not to hit anything. I just put mine in, just the upper part and they arent hitting anything i can see, has anyone had the same thing happen or does it hit somewere i am not looking?
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They will hit the tank. Assemble both upper and lowers with the tubes then see if the tubes contact the tank.
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In my case, the steering damper became the stops, which is very bad. I added some 1/8" aluminum bar stock to my stops to solve that.
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I used a mig welder to extend the OEM frame tab - Installed the forks and front wheel, etc and then before installing the light ground the weld on the tab down on each side so the forks would come within 1/8 inch or so of the tank. Dabbed black paint on the weld and called it good.
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