i have the 99 500 and whenever i get on it, the shocks seems to sqeak pretty loud. it seems when you get on the quad from the left side, you hear the left and when you throw your leg over to the right, you can hear the right. then as you sit down the sounds stops. any fix to this? it isnt causing any problems when riding, but i went riding Sat with about 10 other atvs and mine was the only one that did that noise, kinda embarrasing since they were all Hondas(no offense to Honda owners). thanks all

 

i spray lithium grease all over my shocks to keep them from squeaking. all of my shocks get squeaky without some attention..

 

My fix for this problem with my scrambler was semi-involved... but what i did was to jack it up and remove the struts from their top mounts and lower the wheels to the floor, this exposed the rubber bushing, i went through this area and cleaned EVERYTHING then applied some marine grease to everything. This fixed the problem and it has not since returned. THe rear shock on my scrammy can be made not to squeak by removin it and cleaning it and its mounts. Typically, the sound i found was due to sand or mud getting in the mounts. (my preddy developed the sound recently... but since it's at the shop i haven't fixed it yet.)

 

yea mine was squeakin pretty bad one time whenever i shifted my weight from side to side quickly and i greased that beotch up and its been fine since

 

ok, thanks guys for the fix, i will get some lithium grease and spray them down, i am sure that will quiet them up. thanks again

 

it is almost always the pivot bushing. my r did it every time i washed it. metal to metal contact. i spray the entire bike with silicone after every ride once dry(cept seat and grips haha). easy cleanup AND no squeeks!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

 

Thanks for saving me my next new post!!
Mine was driving me NUTS!

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your welcome, mine didnt get on my nerves too bad until Sat when the other guys were around and one of them got on mine and said something about it. just dont like little noises like that coming off my Polaris.

 

I had an annoying squeak also, tried spraying all kinds of spots.. didn't find the problem for a while. I finally tracked it down to the bolts at each end connecting the sway bar square tube (that runs through the frame) were not exactly tight. I snugged them up and voila... no more noise. Just sometheing you can quickly check before tearing out the shocks etc.

 

i prefer wd 40 over lithium doesn t collect as much dirt and doesn t gum up easily