My very long experience with garage builders contacting my shop for help has teached me quite a bit about the mistakes that many of them are making when tinkering with their bikes.
A frequent one is ordering and/or assembling new fork tubes. And I am not talking in this post about ordering the incorrect tube length (another costly mistake), but 1- ordering bare tubes and then getting confused when hunting somewhere else for the correct internal parts 2- assembling the forks with the mismatched internal parts (from springs to clips and seals), or assembling the correct ones but in such a way that at the first spin around the block your bike front end is going to leak all its fluid suspension.
So, I have only one simple recommendation. If you are not a pro, don’t do it yourself. Make your life easy. Just buy your (correct length) tubes already completely assembled with the correct internals and ready to go. Several vendors do sell them this way. Including Pro-One selling hard chrome forks in lengths from 2” under to 12” over stock. By the way, a last tip: to avoid leaks, ask them at the same time the volume of fork fluid you should add to an extended front end. Pro-One Performance Manufacturing
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That is a very good idea. I wish I knew aboutr this about 6 weeks ago. There were to many choices in springs so I finally called someone and they soled me the right stuff to fit my tubes. It coste me more tho.
Definitely the way to go if you’re not sure what you are doing and don’t have the right tools! Nothing worse than bashing in the seals with a hammer and a screwdriver.