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[lugnut]

There here but to dam cold to go in the garage and play.

[110tHunDer]

John, better take a look at the little package of hardware.  I just opening mine up to do the install and am missing one of the shouldered sleeves we need for our bikes.  Only got three and need four. [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=furious3.gif]

[lugnut]

This looks right. Thanks for the heads up.

[110tHunDer]

Thought you only got two of everything until I scrolled right (big photo, LOL!), but, yeah, you're in good shape.  I only got 3 of the do-dads in the top row.  Of course, I got 4 of everything else, but nothing else is used for the Electra Glide installation!  Again, I say: [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=furious3.gif]

I would not recommend installing these without a jack underneath the bike as some reported successfully doing.  I got quite a bit of compression when I removed the left side shock.  Even lifting the rear of the bike back up left me about 1/2" or so short of being able to install the new Progressive and these are the 12" 4050's.  Will get the Craftsman jack underneath it and finish the job then once I get the other sleeve I need.

[RRSteve]

I know what you mean 103. I put mine up on my PitBull jack and then used my floor jack under the rear tire to raise and lower the swing arm.

[lugnut]

[16HD117]

So just the do dads is all we need, plus two jacks. One for the frame and one for the rear tire. If that it were good to go as soon as the wheather breaks here in about a month.

Hey John,

You need to seriously consider makin' that move to Atlanta.  So far this winter, we've only had a hand full of days that we couldn't ride.   [smiley=cool3.gif]

[Jock]

I hear you there 103lugnut...Sav, GA

[Laker]

John, better take a look at the little package of hardware.

[110tHunDer]

I was thinking about this again last night.  The instructions have a 2/00 copyright date on them, so they only covered up through the 2000 year model (why so out-of-date I don't know), but for Electra Glides they said to use the shouldered sleeve like is in the top row of lugnut's picture.  Said they allowed for the proper offset or something to that effect.  I can post a scan of the instructions tonight.  That's what I planned to use on mine, but got to thinking I could probably just use the plain sleeves instead and everything should be good to go.

Laker, mounting without any of the hardware is probably not a good idea as it would leave the mounting bolts in direct contact with the rubber bushings instead of a hard surface like a sleeve and wear the bushings out very quickly, as well as sacrifice the shocks' performance to some extent.

[Laker]

I appreciate it. I will have to check it out tonight. I thought it was a little odd not to use any of the provided hardware. At least I have not taken the bike for a ride yet.  [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]

[MAS]

The instructions I received with the Progressive shocks did not have me using any of the hardware included. I just slapped them bad boys on there. Were my instructions lying to me?

Laker,

[Laker]

You would think that a product that costs $400 would come with up to date and extremely accurate instructions. Especially on something as important as the shocks. Oh well, not to fear, cvoharley.com is here!! Thanks for the input guys.  [smiley=bigok.gif]

[DavidB]

You would think that a product that costs $400 would come with up to date and extremely accurate instructions. Especially on something as important as the shocks. Oh well, not to fear, cvoharley.com is here!! Thanks for the input guys.

[110tHunDer]

Here is the instruction sheet for the hardware.