front shocks up side down?
- Thread starter Blu Du
- Start date
Your dealer installed them that way . . . good job guys!
dealer
Lower center of gravity! haha.
The dealers don't put on the shocks. They come that way from the factory! It doesn't make a difference in performance, but it is easier to adjust them if there on the other way. My 07 looked like that, and my 08 was put on the right way. All the dealer does, is put on the skis.
Dealers do install the ski shocks. A little metal bar is put in the place of the shock in the crate. It is about 10 inches long and holds the front suspension up till removed and replaced with the shock by the dealer.
you are so wrong!!!!
I went to my dealer and assisted putting my new 09 together and the shocks do not come on the sled. The dealer installs them. I would flip them around if it was me. It is always good practice to try to keep as much unsprung weight off of the suspension as possible.
I would leave them that way, last season one of the group I ride with had something hit the seal on his shock and ruin it. It may be a bit less succeptable to damage inverted..
I always put my shocks on that way, seem to keep crap off the shafts, might help seal life? I dunno, it's late and I'm tired.
Race sleds are that way too. The shaft and valves weigh more than the shock body. less mass moving up and down. Leave em.
They ride stiffer when upside down. The small amount of air that is inside the shock would be on top of the valve stack when right side up. This small amount of air will actualy compress slightly and give the valving a more progressive feel. When they are up side down the air is on the wrong side of the shock valve stack making it hydro lock and slow the shock action slightly. Im only basing this from the information I retained at the Race Tech suspension school I went to.
BTW that is one sick looking sled. Im starting to like the blue and white
Good point on them being stiffer, cause they are. After seeing the race deparment running theirs this way i thought i would try it, hard to say if there is a difference but there is definantly less mass on the body end so less moving mass. makes sense i guess!! 
It is all about the mass---Your a-arms have less mass to move and allows the suspension to react faster. You can only do this with the gas shocks--does not work with Hyd cheap shocks.
They have been doing this for years on Motocross bikes--think maybe there is something to this?
I did this 4 years ago and will never go back to mounting the shock body on the a-arm.
H20SKE...
I raced snocross sleds for quite some time and the race department always told us to keep the housing and oil on the top. The race shocks have remote reseviors mounted inside the body of the sled so they could not be mounted upside down anyway.
Last edited:
Your right i raced a few years too.. definantly no hose running to the body at the a-arm. Not sure what i was thinking. I just remeber the 05's were all upside down too but now not sure which way!!lol
time to lay off the captian morgans!!
edit: just checked a pic of my two 09's thay are the opposite of above pic!! all making sense now!!lol My 05's came upside down...
Last edited:
Our local dealer has a hillclimb edition XP setting on the floor and I was looking at it and could of swore I seen the adjuster on the top of the shock appeared to me they were turned over not sure if it was dealer installed or factory but looked cool.
Yeah the Hillclimb edition has the good shocks with the remote reseviors so they must be mounted with the housing on top just like on the race sleds.
