IS ANYBODY ELSE HAVING A PROBLEM SETTING UP THERE REAR SUSPENSION ON THERE FX NYTRO RTX ??????? RIDES REAL ROUGH, I FELL LIKE I'M BEING TOSSED OF THE SLED ON ROUGH TRAILS !!!! PLEASE HELP
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first off how many miles do have on it ? i have 500 miles on mine now and there is a big difference in how stiff it is from new.. i ride the hill also and now i have a happy medium of a ride for those conditions...
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lol to begin with dont do anything the owners manual tells you to do!! you pritty much have to change each dial one click at a time and see what you think... it took me about 5 hours or playing with my suspension to get it to were i liked it...... i was lookin for sno cross stiff and i like to ramp it lol but when i put the suspension to easy ride like the manual told me it was stiffer than the med. setting.... so i think you just need to play with the compression and rebound as well as the spring on the front shock
hope i could help
hope i could help
THANKS ALOT, ALL THE DEALERS IN THE AREA ARE TELLING ME DIFFERENT WAYS TO SET IT UP. MOST OF THE TRAILS THAT WE RIDE ON THE HILL A ROUGH, BUT I DON'T WONT IT TO RIDE SNOWCROSS STIFF. I DON'T STAND UP MUCH, I WEIGHT 227LBS HOW SHOULD I HAVE THE BLOCKS SET AT. THE DEALER PUT IT ON HARD WHAT DO YOU THINK???? IF I PUT THE BLOCKS ON MED. WILL IT MAKE A DIFF.??????
unpride
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Keep them on hard then try softening up the compression. try about 55 in the floats. There are alot of adjustments on that skid and i have learned everything from this site now my Nytro is absolutely awesome
Traildale
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Go ahead and move the blocks to medium. You will have to adjust the rebound damping to match the spring setting. If its bucking, it needs more rebound damping. If its packing down, it needs less damping.
Now with the springs in the mid setting, you will find that the rear may bottom out more than you like. The springs are NOT there to prevent bottoming. That's what the compression damping on the rear shock is for. Start clicking up the rear compression damping a couple clicks at a time until the bottoming goes away.
What you will have, is a rear skid that will suck up the soft stuff because the springs are soft enough to do their job, and it won't buck because you don't have too much spring preload, and the rear will resist bottoming, because the shocks are doing what they are supposed to do - use the oil and the valving to resist fast compression.
Try that and see how it works. If you don't think its better, ignore everything I said, and try the exact opposite.
I weigh the same as you, and both my Phazer and Nytro bucked like a bronco with the rear springs in the stiffest setting, and in the stutters, they rode like a brick. The stiffest setting may be fine for jumping, but for trail ride quality, use the medium setting and adjust the shock damping to suit how hard you hit the bumps. FYI - the same thought process applies to the front shocks.
Now with the springs in the mid setting, you will find that the rear may bottom out more than you like. The springs are NOT there to prevent bottoming. That's what the compression damping on the rear shock is for. Start clicking up the rear compression damping a couple clicks at a time until the bottoming goes away.
What you will have, is a rear skid that will suck up the soft stuff because the springs are soft enough to do their job, and it won't buck because you don't have too much spring preload, and the rear will resist bottoming, because the shocks are doing what they are supposed to do - use the oil and the valving to resist fast compression.
Try that and see how it works. If you don't think its better, ignore everything I said, and try the exact opposite.
I weigh the same as you, and both my Phazer and Nytro bucked like a bronco with the rear springs in the stiffest setting, and in the stutters, they rode like a brick. The stiffest setting may be fine for jumping, but for trail ride quality, use the medium setting and adjust the shock damping to suit how hard you hit the bumps. FYI - the same thought process applies to the front shocks.
