Stiffer Front springs needed

[MountainMax]

Hey guys, I find my 09 Apex bottoms out very easily up front, I have the springs tightened up almost all the way and it's not near enough, what options do I have?

 

[niko]

bottoming out? thats strange, ive only got mine half way and no probs. What are you doing with it? jumping big? If so you really need to upgrade to a progresive shock.

 

[MountainMax]

just popping the front end up over small mounds of snow, or a snow bank on the side of crossing the road, it hits hard on the hard pack snow, can you recommend a better progressive shock/spring combo or are our springs interchangeable on our stock shocks? I don't want fox float shocks either.....

 

[GotJuice]

front shocks

The best thing you could do is send all your rebuildable shocks to Mike at Carver Performance and have three stage valving done. Costs about 60.00 a shock and will eliminate all problems and improve the ride considerably! This is a progressive valving like Polaris and Skidoo use, so the first few inches of travel is soft and it get's progressively harder. I had all mine done and it's made a HUGE difference....no more pogo stick rebound over the 2 foot woops when riding the trail into the steep and deep. I've hit some hard stuff and never bottomed my front shocks with the springs about 1/2 tight. I run the soft rear torsion springs set on soft with the properly valved rear skid shock and it's plenty stiff, 20ft. drops and NO bottoming. I go near 300 lbs with gear, the only thing I would like to increase is transfer without giving up shock stiffness....this is not going to happen with this skid though. Hope this helps....I do believe Pioneer Performance sells stiffer springs but this is not the proper way to stiffen a shock contrary to Yamaha's theory. cheers.....

 

[MountainMax]

Only problem is I live in canada, and if i send my shocks to the us for re-valving, i have to wait like a month and then pay customs on getting my own shocks back, not going at it, if i could just buy some already done, better then what I have, then I would go that way.

 

[SRXSRULE]

Put a zip-tie around the shock shaft and slide it down to the shock body. Then ride it and see if it really is bottoming out. Eric

 

[hornydevil]

I to have an 09 mtx and found the same thing as you MOUTAINMAX, I tighten mine as hard as they can go and it made a big dif. That exstra 1/2 made a diference for me.

 

[Y_Rider]

Put Fox Floats on mine. They work great.

 

[MountainMax]

I still have some adjustment left, so im gonna tighten er up some more.