I read somewhere that the sp800's come with the tool (in the tool kit) to adjust the preload on the rear springs.
Did anyone get this tool?
I did not.

 

My tool for that job looks an awful lot like a BIG channel lock wrench, because it is. The little spanner wrench that comes with the machine (usually) is junk.

 

Thanks floodrunner.
I use channel locks as well. I was just wondering if i didnt get something that i was supposed to.
The lack of this tool (which by all meens is NOT that big of deal) just adds to the dissatifaction of my purchase.

 

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on with that. Six out of seven guys in our group ride ’05 SPs. Some got the wrench some didn’t. Even if you use the spanner wrench its handle is too short to get enough leverage to turn the spacer against the tension of the spring so you have to grab its handle with another wrench or slip a cheater pipe around it. Might as well just use a channel lock wrench.

Sorry to hear you’re dissatisfied with your purchase.

 

If I had a dollar for every one of these I have seen broken from using the wrong tool I could take off work for a while.

NEVER EVER even think about using vice grips to turn it. When you clamp the vice grips down it WILL shatter into several pieces and these things are a bitch to replace without the proper tools.

 

That’s good advice cornbread, but no one here is advocating using Vise Grips, if that’s what you’re thinking. An 18” pair of Channel Lock Pliers is my tool of choice for the job and I’ve never broken one, although I can see how you could if you squeezed it hard enough.