has anyone came accross a crack on the holz rear skid? the crack is small but vibration from the sled has made a break. the break is the h-arm right next to the grease zurk i would just bite the bullet on this one if it was just my sled but there are 5 sleds that i know about and we are yamahas how many other sleds are out there? holz so far is doing nothing about it
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Mine did this exact thing. I noticed when my grease zerk came up missing. I called Holz and got nothing but an offer to send me a new one for some rediculous price. My skid has Fox Floats and has been set to their specs from day one. I pulled mine off and had it welded. I would not expect much from Holz. They gave up on the Apex skid several years ago. I got no problem with them not making them any more, but you would think a reputable company would service and take care of flaw designs in something they already produced, sold, and made money on.
today a friend of mine that has 3 other rx-1s went to holz and apparently he had he sales guy run back an forth from mark to my friend until he just followed the sales guy an went to marks office an mark started rambling on why he thought our suspensions broke he said it could be anything from being bottomed out to having too much ski pressure, basically mark was trying to get rid of my friend, so finally i dont know how but we ended up getting 3 h-arms for $100 talk about a great service. dont get me wrong i love the suspension, it transfers, it takes a poundind, and its light weight which is somthing that our so called one tons need. if we didnt have 1800 invested in one suspension then im pretty sure there would be a significant amount of people going to another manufacture
I broke my rear arm clean in two, and my skid is old enough that they doen't make the arm anymore
Actually, I'm the guy who paid Holz a visit today with our broken front "H" arms. Out of 12 holz skids we have installed on our riding group's lightenned RX-1's, we have discovered cracks in the top members in six of them. The skids are between 3 and 5 years old, and have a lot of rough mountain riding miles on them. I have a feeling that the tubes have been cracked for some time. When whe noticed one we checked the others. Oddly, the guys who like to jump and cornice drop didn't break. Mark at Holz has been supportive in troubleshooting the possible cause of the failures. Our sleds are pretty porky up front, and the additional preload we like to crank into the front shock may be causing the springs to "coil lock", throwing a big load into the upper mount. Mark has offered to repair some of the failed parts and he offered some replacement parts at a greatly discounted price. Over the years, I've been impressed with the quality of the Holz products, and very satisfied with their level of service. My RX-1's 5 year old Holz skid has over 9k mountain miles on it without a failure, and no more maintennance than annual greasing and periodic shock rebuilds. Their skid has allowed us to turn unruly 4-stroke tanks into respectable mountain sleds. I just wish they were still building products for our rides.
we r still going to run the holz becuase at 6 years now they are still performing awesome, just do the maintence to them like hyfax of course an some others however the h-arm does have the weak spot so just watch for cracks now on the other hand ive been reading an the kmod rear skid is set up for more turbo sleds... the skid gets the skis down on the ground, like a m10 would do. is this the case? and they arent exactly to holz they are more to a stock apex than ne thing
The geometry of the KMOD is a bit diffrent than a holz coilover, With the first gen KMOD you can run it standard, or get the transfer blocks which couples the front an rear arms for higher HP applications and keeping the front end down more.
Or the KMOD gen 2 which is built mainly for high hp turbo applications for front ski control.
I just dealt with this exact issue too. Front torque arm, top cross shaft just to the right of the zerk fitting. I bought the skid used, I am also pertty hard on it myself. I called Holz, talked to Mark and he had another one shipped the next morning for $120.00. I had a good customer service experience and he was more than willing to address all of my silly questions as we went through the process. I would/will buy another Holz skid. Thanks Mark!
Oh, yeah... side note: I was advised by Holz to not have my preload set more than 3/4" or so on the front track shock spring or I will be asking for another damaged arm (maybe check yours and adjust accordingly to avoid repairs during go time)
Cheers!!
Oh, yeah... side note: I was advised by Holz to not have my preload set more than 3/4" or so on the front track shock spring or I will be asking for another damaged arm (maybe check yours and adjust accordingly to avoid repairs during go time)
Cheers!!
