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But...you could leave the upper legs mounted and still remove the lowers.

RocketScienceSmurf wrote on 07/16/19 at 11:47:56:



https://www.bikebandit.com/oem-parts/2000-suzuki-savage-650-ls650p/o/m147741#...

That wont work. Look at the diagram. Part#7 the bushing, ( suzuki calls it a slide) wont fit through the seal. The lower bushing has to go on the tube, the tube into the lower, the upper bushing and the seal into the lower by sliding them down from the top of the tube. You can get the forks apart with the tubes in the triple clamps, but you won't be able to get them back together.

Soak the tubes where they go through the trees and those spacers with some kind of penetrating oil, warm the aluminum with an electric heat gun or even a hair dryer, put a pipewrench on those spacers and see if anything turns. You've got to get the tubes out of the trees to be able to change the seals.

Penetrating oil around the aluminum spacers. Dose it every time you can see the last dose has gone down. Wipe off the outside of the spacers so you'll know when it's worked through between the spacers and forks.

Start with either a pipe wrench or big channel locks and try to spin the spacers.
DO NOT CRUSH THEM and bind them against the forks.

You can use a small, like eight ounce ball pein on them, with a bigger, heavier hammer opposite of where you are spanking the spacers. Quick, light pops, working on a vertical line on each spacer , checking to see if you can spin them, that is how I would go at it.

They are not very thick so I doubt there is any room for a clamp screw but I will check more thoroughly today and snap some more pics. Thank you all for trying to help me. I don't know what I would do without you guys.

(I did splash a small drop of penetrating oil on them yesterday in the hopes that it might help a little.)

It appears that the spacers ARE stock/original item on this model of the bike. A while back I bought a big box of scrap parts from a guy who made a bobber out of his Savage. I took a look in that box today when frustration was about to get the better of me and found the exact same spacers. When examining them I discovered they have a small notch on one side and a small pin on the other side to help with alignment. That explains why I wasn't able to turn the spacer despite quite a bit of force. I have tried to use a knife as a wedge between it and the lower part of the crown to try and slide the spacer upwards on fork stem and it has worked to some extent but I only managed to slide less than a millimeter and I am concerned I may already have made some scratches to the fork.