Quote from: Scott_DCThe brakes seem grabbier since i worked on the bike. Did i mess something up? Unknowingly fix something? Start hallucinating?

What you perceive as grabbier brakes is probably an illusion caused by the more immediate, more "positive" feedback from your now-stiffer front suspension.  Nothing inherent to the brakes should have changed.

Quote from: KerryQuestion for those that have loosened the Allen bolts with an air or impact driver:
How did you get them tight again?  :dunno:

I just assembled the fork leg and tightened them.  I'd have thought that the parts spinning around would have been a problem, but it just wasn't.  It was weird.

Yea, wasn't a problem.  I compressed the spring a bit and then torqued it down..

It's always getting the fork caps back on that gives me the biggest pain in the ass.

Heh..i just remembered what I used to get the level right on the fork oil.  I sliced a potato slice one inch thick, drilled a half inch hole in it and shoved a $0.99 turkey baster through the hole exaclty 5.5" or whatever Progressive recommended.  I overfilled the fork oil a bit and then sucked out the excess to precisely the right level.   Hehehe, i'm so proud.

ahh - the baster is closer to what the clymer manual reccomends. I did the wire wrapped around a stick method to measure - and i gotta say - telling where mostly clear oil is on a piece of copper wire is not easy.

Richard and I left the off-white insulation on the wire that we used, which made the oil level easy to see.  Sorry if we didn't make that clear.  

Ya.  I used welding rod, and I have to admit it made a somewhat crappy dipstick.

A wooden stick seems like it would work the best.

Yeah - i just stole the ground wire from a foot of romex - so no insulation, just bare copper.  I think a wood skewer might work better as a dipstick.