Sacked springs question

NO HAND

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Jun 21, 2000
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Once a spring has sacked 4mm. Do you remove some preload spacers equivalent to 4mm? I have a a fork spring that was 470mm new but has sacked to 474mm. Is it junk now? Should I add or remove some preload spacers?
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shockdoc

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May 3, 2001
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Well if your spring was 470mm long & it sacked 4 mm then it should be 466mm long. Then yes, you could add 4mm of preload spacers for a quick fix.


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Well yeah, I probably went brain dead with thinking the spring got longer when it sacked out :o . Thanks Shockdoc! So it means, to start, I get spacers to make both of my springs equal and then measure on my bike to see if I have a fork race sag of 50mm. Then, fit equal amount of spacers on each side to reach that 50mm. Is that right?
 
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