mr,grumpy 

Hi all. I got my hands on a Giant Boulder and took off the super low end suspension fork and replaced it with a rigid that I had laying around. I tried to reuse all the parts that came off the bike but wound up with two rubber washers that didn’t seem to fit right. They would wind up squished a protruding, like. Bad-back disc. It made the front end squishy and unstable. So I heated them since they were “part of” the suspension for that I removed. I installed the non-rubberized rigid fork and when I tighten the stem nut it goes from “totally sloppy” to “no free rotation” and never hits that sweet spot where it “works right”. Any thoughts?