Lowering a Fox Van 36 180

[itsajoke]

Has anyone on here had any success (or otherwise) with changing a 180mm Van 36 to 160mm by changing springs?

I have read a thread on mtbr dot com about the procedure but there is no long term results posted with it.

If you have knowledge or experience with this, or have Fox internals knowledge, post up something here please.

Cheers.

 

[Live2DieTrying]

Here's a link that should help you out: http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=42958
The instructions should be the same for new and old fox vanilla forks.
I am thinking of lowering my 160mm vanilla's by 10mm. I plan to use a short spring instead of a spacer, (a negative spring!) to counter the increased topout from lowering the coil fork. In theory this should also keep the fork nice and supple, without the change increasing preload too much.

 

[itsajoke]

Thanks L2DT.

They seem to have a working solution but I just want to drop a 160 spring and spacer into a new 180. That way I can put the 180 spring back in later. It seems to simple to work doesn't it?