Hello,
I am trying to find a way to keep my '05 Sportsman 700 from bottoming out when I hook my trailer to it. I primarly use the atv to pull our 16' flatbed equipment trailer for the high school band when we have our yearly comps.
It doesn't matter if the trailer is loaded or not, the rear just drops and causes the atv to hard to steer due to the front lifting up. Is there and extra heavy duty springs and/or spacers that I could get that will resolve this issue, short of making a cross frame to prevent "any" sagging at all, but would rather not go that route. Any help upon this issue wouldbe greatly appreciated.

 

well, one thing you do not want to do is over load the atv. i know i am guilty for overloading it with a trailer, i've pulled my 18' trailer that we use for our lawncare company, and that wasn't light.

are your springs set to the highest setting? if not, it would help a little bit to bump them up a notch or two. there are HD springs you can buy. EPI makes some, there are other companies, but i've heard that EPI springs are very good.

you can also get the suspension eliminaters(cross member that keeps the suspension from traveling.

just make sure you don't over do it by pulling something too heavy/big. it's not worth breaking stuff, thats why they invented trucks.