IF I REMOVE ONE OF THE SPRINGS FROM MY FRONT ELKA SHOCKS WHAT WILL HAPPEN. DOES IT AFFECT THE VALVING? WOULD IT HAVE TO BE SET UP AGAIN. I WANT TO LOWER THE FRONT AND WITH ALL THREE SPRING'S IT'S ONE INCH TALLER THAN STOCK. I HAVE NO RINGS TO TAKE OUT. IF YOU CAN REMOVE A SPRING WHICH ONE ( LOOKING AT THE AS IF THEY ARE ON RAPTOR)? DO YOU THINK THIS WILL LOWER THE FRONT?

 

Send the damn things back and have them do it right! Why dink around with it on your own, when you spent big money expecting to get it right directly from
Elka? Make them responsible.

 

Take one the springs off and you won't have triple rate anymore for sure.It will probaly feel softer than a rubber band. LOL!!

 

I agree with Scottd. You paid to much to have the wrong setup for your quad. Send them back. There is no way your quad should be sitting higher. Do you still have your factory front shocks you can put back on? If not, I can lend you my old ones. I need them back though since I plan to put them back on before I sell it.

If you ordered them directly from Elka, make them call you. I spent 30 minutes on the phone with them once at it cost more than $30 in LD charges.

/NotuRaptor

 

If you wanted to mess around with your shocks you should have bought Works, they are half the price and made for messing around with. That's why TCS starts with works shocks.
.....Removing a spring on a triple rate, assuming you can adjust the retainers, will actually stiffen the overall spring rate. If you set your retainers for "zero preload" that's so you have just enough spring tension to just barely hold the springs and retainers on the shock, you will have sag, and lower your machine. Zero preload is easy to do because you can do it by hand without a clamp or anything to compress the springs, assuming you can get the springs off in the first place.
.....But for the money you paid, send them back! It sounds like they were set up wrong, and you may need some different springs or retainers.
.....I have a box full of spare parts and springs for my works shocks, you'd be surprised how many different bits and pieces there are.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]