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Originally Posted by mark manley
I have had fun trying to remove the rear shock from my GS in the past and have found the only way is to use a piece of wood as a drift coming at it through the spokes and hitting the wood with a hammer, it helps if you have someone else support the shock as you do it. Plenty of copper based grease on reassembly should help prevent it happening again.
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Yeah I've actaully tried that before I unmounted the rear frame. At that point the real wheel was also removed, so I had nice access with a large rubber hammer to beat it.
I later unmounted the rear frame to be able to rotate the shock out of it's upper bracket – to give it more wiggle room.
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