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Hi fellas,
So I have been looking through the search and have not found quite what I am after. I am going to buy the fox shocks from ron ayers as recommendedon this forum.
I actually considered the rough country vertex for 1200plus tax but was reading about their other vertex on trucks and found the shocks were great until 10k miles on a pickup and then you have to buy a whole set.
These have not been out very long and I couldn't find much on the ones for the pioneer so I looked at the pickups which were also pretty new.
Given that we trail ride these machines and they are not meant to go on a truck I can only imagine the shocks would last less time on a sxs. That and other people having the things dynamite shortly after install and ordering new ones under warranty only to have the new ones do the same thing a year later.
The rough country shocks were not rebuildable.
I'm wondering how you guys figure what spring rate to change over to on the fox shocks. I found a great post which explained everything about why he did it but not on determining the spring rate. He said and I found most people like 250 in the front and 300 in the rear.
I read a man plows with 300lbs in the back and that was plenty of pressure for him. But trail riding and plowing are two different things depending upon how fast you go and the terrain etc. I even found a guy changing the springs on walker evans after his wife wrecked a shock after too many margaritas. However nobody ever said what spring rate he should go with for himself, three passengers and gear.
between the dog, gear tires rear windshield and whatever else I estimate we have just shy of 300lbs in the bed.
We carry a spare tire carrier with tire carrier off the rear with a rotopax
A hundred pounds in gear plus a dog in the back. All in all I estimate our buggy with 2 of us up front to way about 25-2600lbs.
I don't want to have too light a spring and have to crank on a bunch of preload but I don't want to be riding on a rock either.
Any helpful insight would be much appreciated.
So I have been looking through the search and have not found quite what I am after. I am going to buy the fox shocks from ron ayers as recommendedon this forum.
I actually considered the rough country vertex for 1200plus tax but was reading about their other vertex on trucks and found the shocks were great until 10k miles on a pickup and then you have to buy a whole set.
These have not been out very long and I couldn't find much on the ones for the pioneer so I looked at the pickups which were also pretty new.
Given that we trail ride these machines and they are not meant to go on a truck I can only imagine the shocks would last less time on a sxs. That and other people having the things dynamite shortly after install and ordering new ones under warranty only to have the new ones do the same thing a year later.
The rough country shocks were not rebuildable.
I'm wondering how you guys figure what spring rate to change over to on the fox shocks. I found a great post which explained everything about why he did it but not on determining the spring rate. He said and I found most people like 250 in the front and 300 in the rear.
I read a man plows with 300lbs in the back and that was plenty of pressure for him. But trail riding and plowing are two different things depending upon how fast you go and the terrain etc. I even found a guy changing the springs on walker evans after his wife wrecked a shock after too many margaritas. However nobody ever said what spring rate he should go with for himself, three passengers and gear.
between the dog, gear tires rear windshield and whatever else I estimate we have just shy of 300lbs in the bed.
We carry a spare tire carrier with tire carrier off the rear with a rotopax
A hundred pounds in gear plus a dog in the back. All in all I estimate our buggy with 2 of us up front to way about 25-2600lbs.
I don't want to have too light a spring and have to crank on a bunch of preload but I don't want to be riding on a rock either.
Any helpful insight would be much appreciated.
