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Okay folks, I’ve found the problem, thanks for your input! It appears that someone had replaced the bolts with the wrong pitch, dampers are 10m x 1.0 but someone during the bikes 2 years of use before it was crashed and stuck in a shed, installed a pair of 10m x 1.25 bolts, my specialty hardware...

That’s what my thoughts are!

That’s what I originally thought, but the first 5 or 6 threads are pretty much smashed flat and will not start threading into the damper

I am working on a 83 XS that has sat since 85, after it was rear ended, while pulling the forks apart both dampers were extremely hard to get the bolts out, and now after I got them apart and cleaned the bolt and dampers look like they were cross threaded, the original owner only rode the bike...