
Air Shock Balance Kit & Air Gauge Upgrade
Making life easy is a wonderful thing. If you have a 2005 Nomad, you may have noticed that with some of the aftermarket seats, you can not get to the valve stems for the are air shocks on the bike without removing the seat. What a complete and unnecessary inconvenience. The solution is inexpensive and completely reliable and accurate.
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The top picture
reflects what I needed to complete this installation. The Progressive
Suspension kit (AFB-1 $24)
contents shown in the
yellow box, the Valve Pin tool, (Pepboys - $2), needed to remove valve
pins in the red box and the adaptor kit to the right for air gauge
installation (less that $20).
For the gauge kit only, contact num1husker@charter.net The original kits were produced by special request and I do not know if they will be offered in the future by this private individual. He did a first class job on getting these kits out to the throngs of riders wanting them. This is a picture of the Myers Extension which I used. I couldn't find a plastic version anywhere and this was around $12 by the time shipping is added. You could do the same thing many different ways. Just lift up the side rear flap on the Mustang seat and there mine sits ready to connect. |
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This is just a picture of the little nipples which need to be unscrewed so that the right angle adaptors can be screwed in, in the place of the nipples. |
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Here is a basic orientation picture for you, pretty easy stuff here. When you are routing the tubes to the components, avoid potential crush areas and other sharp corners or abrasive surfaces. A length of clear plastic tube is included with this particular kit, shown to the left, as an insulating device. When screwing the adaptor to the gauge, make sure 2 turns of Teflon tape are used on the gauge threads. This is where my leak occurred. I had to torque the adaptor down on the gauge with a wrench so the gauge would be stabilized against the aluminum bar which I used to mount the gauge to the bike with. The adaptors which accept the tubing are pretty neat, you just cut the end of the tube off so it is a clean straight cut, push the tube into the opening until it stops, then just give it a little tug back out and it's sealed. The valve pin is also removed from the Progressive head so that the gold colored right angle extension can be added.
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The top picture is the mounted valve extension. 2 turns of Teflon tape are suggested just for that extra little piece of mind. Make sure you tighten the stabilizer nuts back against the Progressive valve heads so the heads don't turn after they are mounted and positioned.
The center picture is the orientation of the "T" adaptor. Try to pick a nice open space where the wires are not bent and the seat will not crush or pinch the tubes. Do not bend this tubing in a way which would cause it to "kink".
Another small issue was addressed with a little surgery on the Mustang seat with a hacksaw. I had to cut out a small section for clearance reasons as you see to the left. Once you pull the seat flap down it pretty much isn't noticeable. |
Two complete procedures are available here and here. Read everything before you do anything.