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[QUOTE="crazybrit, post: 1079455, member: 67247"]
I don't have a mm tape handy.  The 21" is pretty exact (supposed XR).   The 18.5 for the OEM was about,  it's somewhere between 18 3/8 and 18 1/2.

Yep

I bought they from a guy on ThumperTalk.  He seemed cool and all that.  I asked several times.  He said they were from a 98 XR400,  he removed them to add aftermarket springs.  I deduced from this that they were OEM.   Depending on what feedback I get here, I can I guess go back and ask him.

Well.  It all depends on whether or not hanging the fork (uncompressed) in free air is a valid measurement technique.  If so, I have about 1/2mm of gap.    I was thinking of using 4mm of preload,  so thats a 4.5mm spacer.   If this isn't a valid way to measure the gap,  I'm possibly already preloading the spring just to get the fork cap on (with the two spacer caps installed -- clearly they can be removed).

More importantly I need to get out my dial gauge and measure the thickness of the two springs and the distance between coils as clearly, given the length mismatch, I need to confirm the spring really is a .38.  No point even bothering if it isn't.  The whole point of this exercise was to go from stock .35 to .38.

Tony
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