Suspension Set up on 2018 Sidewinder LTX SE

[Yamaha Apex LTX]

I took my sidewinder LTX out this weekend and it was great. but I find there was a little to much ski pressure which made it a little hard to turn in the corners. What are my options to take the ski pressure off a bit?

I have the fox shocks with the clicker on the bottom. It is still on the factory setting. (30 clicks in total and it is sitting 10 from the stiffest)

Should I start with the loosening the front shock springs?
playing with the clicker? any suggestions on where to start?
or do I adjust the rear front shock spring?

Thank you for you help.

 

[PigeonLake]

I took my sidewinder LTX out this weekend and it was great. but I find there was a little to much ski pressure which made it a little hard to turn in the corners. What are my options to take the ski pressure off a bit?

I have the fox shocks with the clicker on the bottom. It is still on the factory setting. (30 clicks in total and it is sitting 10 from the stiffest)

Should I start with the loosening the front shock springs?
playing with the clicker? any suggestions on where to start?
or do I adjust the rear front shock spring?

Thank you for you help.

Its likely the tuner skis if you still have them. See the post about Pilot 6.9s

 

[orangecrush]

Start with the front center shock and loosen it up, may take a lot of turns but start with 5 turns at a time. Mine did the same and made a big difference. Still not happy, loosen limiter strap out to last hole which is hiding under the washer. This will also give it a little more transfer. If your still not happy move to the rear block and make sure it is set to the thinnest side. There is a pretty extensive thread on here from others who had the same thing. Good Luck!

 

[SumpBuster]

I took my sidewinder LTX out this weekend and it was great. but I find there was a little to much ski pressure which made it a little hard to turn in the corners. What are my options to take the ski pressure off a bit?

I have the fox shocks with the clicker on the bottom. It is still on the factory setting. (30 clicks in total and it is sitting 10 from the stiffest)

Should I start with the loosening the front shock springs?
playing with the clicker? any suggestions on where to start?
or do I adjust the rear front shock spring?

Thank you for you help.

Ok, I've run 69 miles on 2 inches of snow, grass, ice and have fooled with the adjustments, and put the curves from my apex on last night. I loosened the front springs until loose, and tightened the front suspension shock spring, and the steering got lighter, but...inside ski lift! It turns initially hard, but is easier the faster you go or under throttle. Next, I noticed big time heel pressure, and quick return to center of the bars, so I shimmed the front of the rubber with tire tube rubber, and the steering got easier, but still plenty of centering feel, which makes it steer hard, but not dart.
So, the curves with slim Jims turn quicker, and then push a little, but with more snow, the concave bottoms will fill and lift it and steer easier. Right now, I re tightened the front shock springs and cut down on the ski lift, but didn't make the steering harder. So tightening the front track shock lightens steering, especially under some acceleration. I put one shim in front of the curves, so the ski is level when on a jack, not tipped up in front as with heel pressure. I'm now doing bump testings...lol...over a smooth ditch and raised grass area, a real bad g out for the yamaha built sleds, apex with hygear setup included

It takes it really well!! I bottomed the front once really piling in to it, and lightly bottomed the rear suspension front shock, but it was a hard hit. So I'm done testing for now, and am pretty comfortable with it. Curves from apex, and tuners on apex...which worked OK on it..not horrible!
And lest anyone think I'm abusing a new sled, when I hit that unexpected mogul, off camber bump, or a mini-me coming the other way in my lane, I NEED to know how this will react. PS...WHite curves with blue loops coming.

 

[DMCTurbo]

Lift the front end of your sled off the ground. Loosen the front springs till there is no pressure on the spring, now tighten it 2 turns. You will want to tighten your centre shock(front shock in rear skid), the more you tighten this shock the more pressure you will take off the skis. This will make a huge difference. Do it in increments until your happy. It took me an hour or so of tweaking my suspension last year to get it near perfect for what I like.

 

[SAB1]

Pretty much ready to give it try on this ne LTX SE. Lightened up ski springs. I'm 5'8 and 172 lbs so anyone in that category want to share where you found sweet spots fire away? Thanks

 

[SumpBuster]

Pretty much ready to give it try on this ne LTX SE. Lightened up ski springs. I'm 5'8 and 172 lbs so anyone in that category want to share where you found sweet spots fire away? Thanks

I'm close to that, maybe a little bigger, but haven't found it yet. But havent tested on packed snow either. I will say taking all tension off tension the springs lightened the steering a little, but the inside ski lifted and bobbled up and down. On the apex I can run soft up front because of the heavy swaybar, but this is too 'floppy#, as Knapp attack.reminded me. It rolls over too easy with the soft springs and that gets it to lift.
Granted, I'm trying to push it hard to see what it does, and it's grabbing dirt on the planted ski. I went back to 8 turns tight and 2nd hole in limiter. I will take hard steering over unpredictable ski lift. Rear springs soft, front skid shock maybe a third of the way up from bottom threads. I did try pulling the limiter tigher another hole, it was harsher over a ditch jump, so not going that way. Lots of bad trails around here once it gets going.