Depends which sort of alignment you're talking about, Phil. Sounds to me like you're thinking of re-aligning the forks in the yokes, in which case read this:http://www.yamahafz1oa.com/quadrunner500sforkalignment.shtml
Having recently started taking my missus on mine I thought I'd set mine up for us both... and found compression damping virtually non-existant!!. Local yam dealer recommended K Tech. Having read all this I'm still inclined to take my standard Yam Shock to K Tech for them to mend it. A new Hagon? what are they £300? £400? Be about £100 for K Tech to mend mine Money talks and it sounds like if they balls it up they'll sort it out. Were all human...I drove my lorry into a short post that I knew was there the other day...when you drive for thousands of hours a mistake will happen eventually, just as I suppose when you mend loads of shocks ones gonna get ballsed up eventually. yer know, just saying like