My wheeler is starting to bottom out and does not rebound all the way to original ride height, so I am thinking my rear shocks are bad. I am going to adjust the springs to stiffen the ride a little for now. I haven't seen any stock shocks other then what is offered from Polaris. I run all the stock set-up and was wondering if there are alternatives. Maybe the factory are OK but I wanted to see the options.....

 

What you are talking about is a SPRING problem, not shocks. Shocks are mearly "dampers" so you don't bounce like a trampoline when you hit a bump on just the spring. The shock soaks up the natural bounce of a spring. They don't push up... or if they do, with very little force (depends on shock type).

You're springs are "sagged". This occurs naturally from the weight of the machine sitting on them and from riding, compressing them over bumps and what not. You can tighten up the rear springs with the collar nut on the bottom of the shock assembly, that will help. Eventually, you will need new springs or a spacer to tighten them up more.

I just did the "hockey puck" mod on my front springs to make the bike sit back up at correct ride height. Worked wonders!

 

What is the hockey puck treatment??

 

Do a search in the forums and it will come up with some results for ya...

In summary though:
You take your shock assembly apart. Then drill a hole in a hockey puck the size of the shock. Take the spring off the shock, slide on the puck and then compress the spring and reinstall.

What you are doing is making the spring have mor etension on it by making it occupy less space. The hockey puck acts as a spacer. So, if you're springs are sagging, as mine were, adding a 1" spacer will gain you back 1" of ride height.

If you want more details, get back to me and I can go into the steps more.