Recent content by JonSnevets

For what it's worth, I ended up finding a guy near me selling factory forks from my exact model year and I picked them up pretty cheap, painted them, and swapped them out. It sits a whole lot more reasonable now and I can actually make it out of my driveway!

From my quick online search, it looks like buying a full set of factory forks is cheaper than the springs for some reason. Also, bargain tearing apart the smaller parts of the engine to see what kind of shape it's in and I take the stator side cover off to find out it has a PMA kit already...

So what's the best way to go up 2.5 inches, so I'd have about a half an inch of a drop?

So I took multiple measurements both for myself while doing more research and to give you guys more information since you'll all be far more knowledgeable than myself. Here's what I got:

Here's the pictures I have for now

I was recently talked into getting a bike by some of my close friends and decided to cave in. I traded my old 86 Jeep Comanche project for a 79 XS that is already hardtailed and seems to have had an odd mixture of work done to it by a PO at some point. I'm mostly curious about two different...