Who is that guy, I've seen his pix and I need to ask him some questions.

 

im scott from canada!
ask away!!!

 

Scott, nice to hear from you. I am looking at some Z400 a arms up next to my LT250 '87. The Z400 are identical to 400EX except for being a hair wider at the mounting point. (by "narrower" I mean each mount's width, not the width from from the front of the a arm to the back). The upper is pretty much a drop-in, but the bottom seems to have the mount for the ball joint farther back which would create a negative caster situation.

So, my question is, how did yours go on? I think you used the 400EX spindles & outer parts, did that make your caster (not camber) correct, at least good enough to work? Looking at the 400EX arms, they are a bit narrower at the mounting points and seem that they would bolt up using a couple of spacers so they weren't sloppy in the mount. This is a bit hard to describe accurately without drawing on a piece of paper........ [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]

 

i did run into that problem too, but i just made the bottom mounts out farther "side to side", like when i had them on at first the camber/castor was junk but then i made new bottom mounts that stretched out to make it purrfect!i have 250r spindles and brakes, but the z400 idea is what i would have done to keep it "suzuki" but i just got my hands on cheap parts. check out my pic's i think you can see the bottom relativly well but im not sure.
p.s. id go with 400ex shocks or z400 shocks if you decide to do this!
scott

 

Where are your pics?

 

quadracer.co.nr "readers rides"