If you let me throw that POS in the trash for you when you come down here I will GIVE you a perfectly good SV650 shock or your choice of several GS ones.

If you see what the things looks like... you'll encourage me to fix it... I sliced it open quite nicely. And it has adjustable rebound. Well I have a bunch of GS shocks... and well an SV shock would be fine but mine had rebound adjustment... I should be able to fix it easy... I am welding it back together BTW... so one less thing to worry about. BTW... How did the suzuki morons weld the thing up so close to the O-ring without worrying if the O-ring will burn out...
Cool.
Srinath.

It HAD adjustable rebound...

Ha ha...
It has, and it will again. Worst case... I'll slice open the one with the bent rod, and drop this rod in with new seals etc, and slice off the clevise on the other end and weld the eyelet on from this one... cos its got the eyelet connected to the rod unlike this which has the clevise and rod as one piece.
BTW... How many zip ties can your bike have before you are officially "white trash". Cos the bike now has 16,000... even for me that's a bit much.
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Srinath.

OK I sliced open another shock, it had a bent rod...... This was more like the GS/katana shock... but unlike a Kat shock it didn't have rebound adjusters... Now This was crimped over, I ground off the crimp lip... easy with a becng grinder... Hold it at an angle, holding the eyelet/rod and it spins the shock body beautifully... making its own lathe... anyway... it opened up, and had to have some serious force to yank it open... This is the ball point pen quality you are referring to. My other one was 1000 times better. Now I know what you were referring to. However this is boubd to be easier for me to close up, I prolly wont but this was easier to open and will be eaiser to close. The thing also has hydraulic damping separate from the sealing... and it has a simple 14X42X12 seal... easy to get... anyway...
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Srinath.