"Spud, thank you for the idea of putting pennies in the spring to ease installation. I put 12 pennies in while the bike was on the centerstand. When I took it off the stand the spring was loose. I didn't need the spring while checking my grinding, going a bit at a time. When I was done with the grinding I just slipped the spring back on, deployed the centerstand, and removed the pennies. Easy, except one thing: To be sure that the pennies didn't pop out I used pliers to press them further into the coils. When I removed the pennies I found that they were bent! Oh well, 12 cents down the drain."
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Originally Posted by SpudRider
Thanks for posting the good report. 
Think of the dozen pennies as a excellent tool which you use one time, then discard. Fortunately, the tool only costs twelve cents.  |
Say it isn't so, RX3 blasphemy, Unamerican, definitely very unchineseyous. You could of put them in a vice an squished them suckers back into useful recycled life and installed many more springs or taken a trip on your RX3 that you know you want to go on this summer to a museum or aquarium and put them into one of those penny squishing machines that costs $.50 to make yourself a medallion of a seal or airplane . Just saying.
Having expounded on that, how the heck do you get the pennies into the spring? My spring was very strong (or I am very weak) an I could only get in about 6-8 pennies into the spring. I hooked one end of spring into a slot on the front crash bar ,I mean engine protector Joe B., and bent the spring to open up the coils. Any better way? rj