XTX REAR SKID SHOCK BLACK AND BLUES

[Yamatario]

The Star kit is well worth the investment. It used to bottom out all the time now it absorbs them. You have to work with the center preload to balance out your transfer and pressure on front shocks, but after that away you go. I have a bad hip so I like the Nytro for standing up. I could only sit for very short periods because of the stock suspension. Now it does not beat up your back end. We did have some trail with bad studders that still pounded, but that was the day five of a six day trip, so I was also tired.
The handling through twisting trails is also improved. With the Split rails skis and the Star suspension this thing handles like it should have. It is almost scary because cruising down the trails I don't have no fear of the corner, or hill and corner, or even hill bumps and corner.
I just can believe the handling improvement, and all my riding buddies have commented on my average speed increase.
For Price of the Star suspension kit you can't not do it.

With this kit does it does it no longer have rear arm transfer adjstments? Does it become an uncoupled skid? Can you stay on the gas and carve through turns or is there more ski lift than stock skid?

Do don't have the adjustment anymore but it transfers through the movement of the bottom of the arm now. You need to run a tight track and that is why you now really use the center shock preloaded to help setup your skis pressure. I have the limiter strap in the 2nd hole to help keep the front end down. I had to tweak the preloaded several times during my first run with it to keep the engagement perfect through excel, decel, and neutral throttle through corners. These setting are where I have dialed it in perfectly for that.

 

[romie]

XTX ride. Coupling issues????

I have noticed that the control rods don't seem to couple the rear and front until deeper into the travel compared to my last arctic cat. This seems to put the sled deeper into the travel while riding and of course, into the stiffest part of the travel. The front and rear arm coupling late causes more bucking in moguls and stutter bumps. Seems they have done this to remedy heavy steering, especially off throttle. Pulling up limiter or getting the sled to couple sooner may bring back the crazy front end steering issues with more weight on the skis. If a set of skis and carbides that don't dig and wander were put on, a guy could play with getting the rear skid to couple sooner, play with valve and springs, and dial it in. This is my first nytro and the ride reminds me of my m8, m1000, and crossfire 7 of years past. All of them had uncoupled rear suspensions. My buddys 2012 yamaha, not a nytro, has a shorter distance of travel in the control rods stroke, which brings the front and rear arms together sooner. Overall, this sled has been a blast for me. Hope it holds up. Last yami I had in 02 literally fell apart underneath me in about 6 weeks.