so, my trusty manual says nothing about how to take apart the rear shock...ie taking the spring coil off of the strut. I'm guessing they're all pretty standard in how they are put together, so I'll do my best to describe it without a picture.
The assembly bolts onto the swingarm at the bottom, and when not connected to the rest of the frame it freely moves. the bottom of the actual shock has an old attempt at adjustable shocks with a rotating ring for varying degrees of spring compression, with the coiled spring and strut going through the center, at the top theres a large "washer" type ring that caps it all off. The strut goes through that and ends in an eye that is the attachment point at the top to the frame. If you compress the spring down, it reveals what appears to be a nut. We feebly attempted to hold the "eye" portion and loosen that nut, and either we weren't doing it right (most likely) or there's another way to dismantle this piece. As best as I can figure, that's the correct way, because once that comes off....its a straight shot to remove the coil.
so, my questions are: 1. any special tools to use? 2. getting it off is one thing, how about getting it back together? 3. is it too much of a pain in the ass? I'd like to pain the coils as they have some rust/pitting and think it would generally look better, but if its too much trouble, I'll just do what I can to clean 'em up as is.
if you need a picture because my description sucks...I'll work on that.
The assembly bolts onto the swingarm at the bottom, and when not connected to the rest of the frame it freely moves. the bottom of the actual shock has an old attempt at adjustable shocks with a rotating ring for varying degrees of spring compression, with the coiled spring and strut going through the center, at the top theres a large "washer" type ring that caps it all off. The strut goes through that and ends in an eye that is the attachment point at the top to the frame. If you compress the spring down, it reveals what appears to be a nut. We feebly attempted to hold the "eye" portion and loosen that nut, and either we weren't doing it right (most likely) or there's another way to dismantle this piece. As best as I can figure, that's the correct way, because once that comes off....its a straight shot to remove the coil.
so, my questions are: 1. any special tools to use? 2. getting it off is one thing, how about getting it back together? 3. is it too much of a pain in the ass? I'd like to pain the coils as they have some rust/pitting and think it would generally look better, but if its too much trouble, I'll just do what I can to clean 'em up as is.
if you need a picture because my description sucks...I'll work on that.