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Message: [QUOTE="John Harris, post: 961269, member: 30138"] If I understand your proceedure correctly, you will wind up with the same preload on your new springs as you had on the old stock ones. Is that what you want? The better? way is to put the springs in the forks and screw the cap onto the center rod, then measure the uncompressed distance between the top of the springs and the cap for the spacer. Add to this dimension the amount of preload you want on your XR springs, usually 3 to 10 mm and then cut your spacer. Be sure you have the rings/caps on both ends of the springs (from the stock springs) before you do your measuring and then of course use them in the installation. To help you out--if I remember correctly with 10mm of preload my spacers were about 1.5" long. Easiest and best modification you can make to your KDX to keep you out of ER. Cheers John [/QUOTE]