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Wrong Shocks

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Heard a rattel in one of my shocks. Took off the chrome dome and half of the split key fell out. Other half remains engaged. Looked it up in the manual and shocks on y 62 are 67 and later - surprise! My question is, how do I get the half of the split key back where it belongs? Manual says use a shock compressor. Don't have one laying around the garage. Any suggestions or do I have to take this to a shop?
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Re: Wrong Shocks

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I made a homemade shock compressor about a million years ago. I may hove posted a photo here. I think someone else also had a photo of their homemade device.
Try a search of the data base here, and good luck with that!
If you come up blank, I can post a photo tomorrow (on phone right now).
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Re: Wrong Shocks

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A shock compressor is just a couple of steel plates and a couple lengths of all thread. Easy to make up.
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Re: Wrong Shocks

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Here's mine. Maybe overkill, but you get the idea. There is a nut welded to the underside of the top plate. The nut on top of the threaded rod is welded to the rod, on the bottom of the rod the nut is also welded and there's another nut on the bottom, also welded. To compress, I just spin the threaded rod with an air tool, and it moves the center 'sliding section'. The square on the bottom plate holds the bottom of the shock, the half-round cutouts on the 'sliding section' engages the top of the shock.
There may be a simpler design, but I can tell you this contraption works effortlessly. Looking back, it's kind of funny. My partner and I spent an afternoon making up a couple of these, and I only used mine once...! lol


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Re: Wrong Shocks

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I made a shock compressor. Got the idea from Carl at Carl's Cycle and a friend on the Facebook Classic Pan page. No machining necessary, pieces bought for under $9 and it worked like a dream. Here are some pics to show you what I did. I took a couple old clutch plates, drilled holes in them for 3 threaded rods, double nutted the bottom to keep the rods from turning when compressing the shock. Check it out.
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