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How stiff is your ride?

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Offline BV1

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How stiff is your ride?
« on: August 20, 2005, 11:11:15 PM »
My X90 is crazy stiff in the rear. I go over rail road tracks and it feels like the car is coming apart.

If I corner and hit some small bumps the back end skids out. It feels tight, as in, not the shocks, but maybe its because the spring is so stiff and the shocks are dead. Hard to tell.

Whats your guys experience?

-Steve
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Re: How stiff is your ride?
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2005, 11:49:53 PM »
Lower the tire pressure to 23 PSI like
the tire placard says (stock tire sizes)

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Re: How stiff is your ride?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2005, 03:07:28 AM »
I heard that the X90 has softer rear springs than a Track/Kick so I'm a little surprised. The Track/Kicks are pretty harshly sprung at the back.
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Re: How stiff is your ride?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2005, 03:17:34 AM »
most of the time, its the shocks. its either they are too hard valved for the weight, or they are shot.

try taking the shocks out, and then push/bounce the rear. this will show if your springs are soft or hard.
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Re: How stiff is your ride?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2005, 09:15:43 AM »
My guess is tire pressure too high or bad shocks...
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Offline BV1

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Re: How stiff is your ride?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2005, 10:10:43 AM »
I will change both today, and see what happens,

-Steve
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Re: How stiff is your ride?
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2005, 07:24:37 PM »
My Goblin tracker had a really bad bouncing problem in the rear. When hitting a heaved-up crack in the highway, the back end would jump a foot to either side! At the time, though, it was running bald bias ply 31's with bad shocks. New shocks and new swamper radials at about 24 psi and the problem is gone.
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