[sam097]

Took apart my 45mm shivers and they had a 5mm preload spacer on them. I noticed the spring had no preload on it when I took it apart. I have now set the oil level and reassembled the forks with the 5mm preload spacer and the spring doesn't have any tension on it in the tube. I screwed it back together and the fork has about 1/4" of slop in it before the spring starts to compress. You can hear it sliding in the top cap. The springs are .45's and they are 460mm long like the manual lists. What's going on here or am I misunderstanding preload???