[Closed] Can the travel on a 2009 Fox Vanilla be reduced from 140 to 120mm?

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.