Just curious. I've never really messed with the adjustment on my rear shocks on my sportsman. Just kept them close to the middle setting. I just set mine to the softest setting but haven't had time to get out and play around or play with the adjustments. Concrete season kickin in. At 250lbs am I in danger of bottoming out my suspension in rough terrain and causing damage? I've been told with my size the softest setting will bottom out.

How do most of you guys have your springs set? Softer, stiffer and what pro's and con's do you see from the way you have them set?

 

Stock settings for me.

 

i put mine back to stock after last time jumping it i pop my rear half shaft out on the softest setting from the bounce up so you best bet with you is back to stock im only 150 and i still managed to bottom out after catching 6 feet of air

 

The rear settings on my X2 are on the soft and the front stock springs are replaced with the Polaris Heavy Duty. It seems the stock fronts get a little soft pretty quick. I've only bottomed out a couple of times but it was the front that was bottoming.

 

depending if i had some one w/ me or not i would max it out if not i would have it on stock setting w/ no bottoming out at 220.lb

 

I rode my King Quad at the stock setting for a while (next to lowest) but began noticing I was bottoming out more after adding a winch, skid plates, and a trunk in addition to my weight of 240.

I cranked it up to the max and plan to give it a thorough test today.

 

So what is considered the stock setting? I've never bought a brand new always a new/used and who's to say the original owner didn't change the settings prior to me getting it. I might get some time this weekend to play with it but doubtful with it being holiday weekend.

 

I imagine the "stock" setting would vary from each manufacturer...

My King Quad really impressed me today with the shocks pre-loaded at the highest setting. It was soaking up the big hits very impressively. Me and Troyboy68 did about 42.5 miles around MA, CT, RI on some wildly varied terrain. We hit some nice whoops on an abandoned railroad bed, a little smooth open terrain, and some tight technical trails (I use the term "trails" very loosely here) with lots of New England rocks to navigate over. My poor skid plates took a beating but it was a great ride.

I did notice I was getting jostled around a bit more over the rocky areas but I think it may prove a wise decision to leave the suspension at max pre-load and deal with the jostling because every time I get airborne I am rewarded with a much smoother landing.

I noticed no trouble navigating steep or off-camber areas, in fact, I think the performance was actually improved in these areas.

 

How many pounds of air were you running CNC ?

 

My tires are set to the manufacturer's recommendation of 5.1 front and 4.4 rear.