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Originally Posted by Mike K
Exactly. I'm just doing springs and emulators so there's no reason to go to the extra and unnecessary work to take off the forks.
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Emulators take over compression damping duties from the stock damper rods. You need to drill out the stock holes in the damper rods (i.e. make them too big to do any damping) for the emulators to work properly.
Intiminators don't require drilling out the damper rods due to the thinner oil they use, though you may still want to, just to make sure the stock parts aren't interfering in any way. I haven't yet, but plan to when I service the forks and have them apart.
For springs, there's no reason to take the forks off/apart though. I think it took me longer to do the preload math than it did to actually swap my fork springs.