Originally Posted by
Scrodzilla
Understandably so but he's saying the quill doesn't fit inside his new fork. That has nothing to do with how long the stem or the bolt is.
The way I read the original description, I understood that the stem and quill go in, but not as far as it did with the old fork. In that case, shortening the stem may be one way to address the problem
Edit. I don't think it would be the right way