Need fork help!

[Bakeoff]

I just picked up a 74 cb550. The PO told me it had 750 forks on it. Fine and dandy, I take it home.

Now, I'm tearing into the thing, rebuilding a LEAKY engine, doing a cafe tail on it, and all that fun jazz. I hit the front end and want to get it back down to the stock 500/550 height. Am I better off finding someone to trade, buy some from someone, or modify the 750 forks to drop them back down the two inches I want?

There are a few other bikes in the garage, and I'm sure I could throw these on another bike eventually. I'm just looking for my best/cheapest solution here.

 

[beatnic]

Are the forks 35mm (earlier 750 models) or 37mm (later 750 models) ?

 

[crazypj]

I put 750 tubes inside 550 sliders on mine.
Used longer 750 shocks as well because 550 is quite wide and grounds out easy

 

[Midcoastcustoms]

Shorten the damper rods or push the fork tubes through the trees.

 

[Bakeoff]

They are the older 35mm shocks on it.

As far as pushing them up in the trees, I want to run clubmans on it and can really only go up 1/4", otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

Maybe I'll rip those suckers apart and shorten then up after I'm done with the tail.