raptors suck i know some one who has one the carb keep comming out of the boot and the steering calem kep coming loose and the rear axle he sold it and bought a 250r before the raptor he had a 400ex

 

VWVR6, No I havent heard of anything rubbing when shock linkage flipped, nothing rubbed on mine but I am selling my raptor and have flipped linkage back to stock and put stock front shocks back on. I wouldnt reccomend flipping linkage unless front end is lowered as well with some ZPS shocks. One thing you could do is measure lower frame height with linkage flipped and then flip it back to stock and measure frame height to see if the frame clearance is the same. I didnt measure mine when I flipped it but the frame height may be lower! Let me know if you do this so I can let a couple of buddies know. You could flip it back to stock and run more sag in the rear so the ride height will still be low and alot of guys are running alot of sag and say they like it better. Let me know if you check frame height.

 

Well Super250 it appears to me that your buddy doesnt know how to do maintenance! As far as the carb boots all he had to do is turn the idle circuit up and move his airbox forward, dont forget its a 660cc and when it coughs theres alot of compression and it will blow any carb boot off or blow a hole in the boot itself. As far as the stearing stem the nut on the bottom loosens up but there is a cotter key which prevents it from falling off and all you need to do is use some lock tight or a washer to tack up the space between the washer and the key but lock tight is the way to go for the stearing stem nut. The rear axle nuts do come loose as they do on alot of quads my 250r's come loose to so either get a locking axle nut or use some duct tape!

 

Well, the back of his frame (right before the swing arm starts) does sit lower...we didnt measure it, but we had a stock Raptor to eye it up with. Yea, my friend is running stock shocks in the front, so it does have a bit of a weird feeling with the front end higher. Overall though, it really did make a big difference in handling. Another reason he switched his rear shock linkage around (back to stock), because he was afraid it would snap because the "meat" of that linkage is not supporting the shock anymore (if you know what I am talking about).

Eric