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Looking for a little help installing 3" spacers from Hugh's. When I line up the hole in the spacer with the hole in the rod there leaves a gap. Shouldn't the spacer be fully seated? If so the holes aren't gonna line up. Also, I cut off 3" of spring but once reassembled I can't get the fork cap...

I have plans to lower my forks using spacers from Hughs Handbuilt. I need one of the tools that is required and need some suggestions on where I can find it. Hugh rigged his own tools, I'm not that good. Where can I buy the 17mm fork cap tool necessary to remove the upper from the lower...

I'm looking to shave/rebuild/lower forks on xs650. HHB is busy doing other stuff and can't accommodate. Does anyone have suggestions on where I can send my forks to have this work performed. Thanks, Brian

Can anyone provide some insight into how the xs650 frame is constructed. I'm interested in vertical sleeve on the front of the frame. see photo. Does the inner tube run all the way up to the neck tube with the sleeve covering the whole thing?

Looking for complete 21" front wheel for 1981 xs650. Also, consider a 21" rim and I would lace my existing hub to it if compatible.

Anyone know where I can buy a new 21" front rim/tire ready to go?

Folks I tore down my '81 xs650 to the frame and had a TC Bros hardtail installed. Needless to say that was the easy part. I'm looking for feedback on next steps after paint. Seriously, I have no experience with this but do have the help of a community garage for any technical aspects of the...

I'm looking for referrals to do the hard tail install on my xs650 in the Chicago area. It will be a TC brothers hard tail, i have a couple names but looking to see if there are any more recommendations. thanks in advance.

Looking for suggestions on how to remove the stock exhaust. Tearing down '81 xs650. Any feedback would be helpful, the cross pipe seems to be holding up the removal, should i cut it or is there another way.

Just bought an '81 xs650 special II, first time go at converting to bobber. Pretty much have 0 experience in this arena, but thought I could at least break it down to the frame. Need to tear down for hard tail installation and paint. Is there a practical way to accomplish this or can I just have...