A arms will help as mentioned above. I started with spacers and that did actually help the stability and I believe so did just the lift however it had a little body roll.
Have now taken the lift out and using superatv a-arms and fox shocks, couldn’t be happier. I personally like how the shocks work and feel without the lift and I feel better about the angle of the drive shafts. Seen so many twisted axles I feel this is a part of the problem.
Everyone likes a little different setup though.
It also depends on how you drive. If you're balls to the wall most of the time, yes it's going to feel top heavy with body roll. I run my shocks on soft because I get a lot more feel crawling / climbing but I'm not into riding gravel flat trails. My setup works well for me.
My riding style is in between these guys, I’m not a mudder I like hard technical trails, I probably ride a little harder than
@drfubar but nowhere near as hard and fast as
@CumminsPusher.
I had a big lift on my 700, a heavy stereo at roof level, lightbar up high, heavy spare tire carrier with tools, and hard mid panel. It was as top heavy as Dolly Parton. It was tipsy on anything off camber but I sold it before I decided to redo it.
On my 1000 I decided I wanted to keep her more stable. There’s MORE suspension travel so that’s a major benefit if you’re crawling over rough terrain. I have accessories but that are all mounted as low as possible or are MUCH lighter than what was on my 700. It’s still heavier than most because off all the adds but it’s all low. All that weight made her squat with factory shocks. I added the SATV arms , pulled the sway bar, and added Fox shocks and I brought it back to factory ride height with the Fox(with stock tires before I put my Evos on). There is some body roll but with all the weight low. It’s minimal. With the glass windshield and wiper kit installed it’s more but not significantly more. Removing the sway bar really helps stability(keeps the machine more level) on slow sections of very rough uneven terrain. I tried driving it HARD on flat even ground to see how bad the body roll would be with out it. I couldn’t really tell a difference at any speed a “reasonably” sane person would be driving. I feel like the sway bar is more of a CYA for Honda when some asshat decides to try a power slide at 67mph or is driving beyond their abilities at much too high of a speed.
I leave the Fox on the softest setting for 95% of my riding it lets it crawl over rocks and off camber trails easily, going a little faster the ride is like a Cadillac it’s feels like your floating over trail that would feel rough with stock shocks. If i know I’m going to be running faster on rough trail I’ll bump them to the middle setting which is 4.999% of my riding. The hardest setting is really reserved for ROUGH TRAIL at speed and jumps. I have tried them once to see how well that absorbed a somewhat small leap(it is near 2000lbs I’m launching into the air so I try not to do that) and they soaked it up like a champ didn’t even bottom out.
In all of these all 4 tires are making contact with the ground. With the sway bar connected it wouldn’t do it. A rear tire always started to lift and it’d feel unstable.
