Shock absorber adjustment tool and method

Details Shock absorber adjustment tool and method Shock absorber adjustment tool and method

1999-05-24

2000-10-17

Gerrity, Stephen F.

Tools

Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor

Rigid jaws

811761, B25B 1300

Patent

active

061314943

ABSTRACT:
A single hand tool is utilized to adjust the rear shock absorbers on a motorcycle, such as a Harley Davidson Softail motorcycle, with the motorcycle in a standing position, without requiring jacking or other lifting of the rear wheel of the motorcycle off the ground. The hand tool is a contoured steel plate having a first end serving as a wrench for loosening the lock nut on the shock absorber, and the second end having dowel pins which engage recesses in the shock absorber adjuster plate. The tool has a length short enough to allow the lock nut of the shock absorber to be loosened and tightened without lifting the bike. A handle of the tool between the two ends has finger receiving recesses along both sides.

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Popular Science, Aug. 1958, p. B11.
No. HD-94455-89 Softail Shock Absorber Spanner sketch, admitted prior art.

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