Hi all,
So the parts just arrived 10 days after payment ... Shipped up from a place down South Island called Jap MC Dismantlers.
They arrived today, being the wrong springs in literally every dimension but one (the longer free spring length), allbeit very close to the measurements of my own OEM springs. See attached images for ref.
Im going to be frank here, and given that its COVID times please take what I say with a grain of salt because Im sure there's two sides to every story. Here's just what happened from my end and the sucker punch that is putting a whole rebuild on hold for parts only to find when they arrive they are the wrong ones.
So with Jap MC Dismantlers, the correspondence and service was crap from the get go, I started an open email chain specifying what I was looking for with solid detail/images/measurements and yet after 3 weeks of delayed back and forth including a few moments of being told I was "splitting hairs" for wanting to know if their springs matched up with the specs, they arrived.
Wrong width, wrong wire gauge, wrong winding count...
Anyway, Im here now disgruntled as I may be with the question on my brain. Should I use these replacement springs or just put the old ones back in? They are longer around 39.5mm+/- 0.5mm so thats nice, but with the wire gauge a little thinner they do feel a bit softer than the old ones (I can compress them to binding point by hand, whereas I cant with my OEM ones)
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