I have a pair of 2009 (I think, they have 15mm QR and a squarer shape arch) Fox Vanilla R forks. The current travel is 140mm.
Is it possible to reduce the travel to 130 or 120mm? I seem to remember moving some spacers around inside to change the travel but I also previously had a pair of Floats of the same vintage so I may be confused or forgetful!
I looked into this a little while back, and seem to remember it is possible but the only way to do it was to cut the coil spring down yourself. I didn't fancy it at the time so shelved the idea.
Had some from about a couple of years before and had them adjust ed from 140 to 120 at the time
I've done it by cutting 20mm off the spring and fitting a home made spacer onto the negative part of the shaft. I made the spacer from a peice of 20mm electrical conduit.
There's some useful info in this PB post: https://m.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=85236&pagenum=1
Ah... I was hoping it was only a case of spacer swapping - spring cutting sounds a bit heavy duty by comparison 🙁
But thanks for the responses all.
Ive done this without cutting springs..
you'll need a rockshox tora spring though.. (can be found on ebay)
and a 20mm fork travel spacer.. (rockshox fit, i had one spare)
stick the travel spacer under the negative spring.. install the handilly 20mm shorter (and make sure its fairly heavilly greased) tora spring.. (without heatshrink or its a smidge too big...)
mine are running at 110mm using a firm spring.. had to cut 5mm off each end of the shaft under the spring to achieve this though without modding the spring.. (there was *just* enough thread in the shaft in my fork to do this without tapping the thread further down too..)
I wrote the guide on that pinkbike thread ( http://www.wheeladventures.com/vanilla/). Sadly I've let my website lapse. It required the previous generation of Fox 32 spring and a turned alloy spacer. Message me if you want help.