Betheviper was helping me but I'm still pretty confuse of what do I have to do....I bought a set of long travel suspension shocks for my sx 600 front and rear. The only thing I have are the shocks, what else do I need, I notice that the mount on the front shocks are diferent. He was also talking about radius rods and made them wider but I have no idea what they are or what he means...as you can see I'm pretty dumb about al this or I should say i have no clue. Anyways if somebody have some time to tell me all the stuff I need before I start the project i will apreciatte that.....In case somebody has some parts that I need let me know...thanks
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ccrider
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I just did my SRX (at least part way) this weekend. The rear suspension is simple. Drop the shocks in from the Viper and get a longer viper limiter strap. This is simple and only took me 1 hour to do.
The front is a lot trickier. The viper front shocks will NOT go onto the front as is for 2 reasons. 1st....the shocks are just way too long for the stock radius rods. 2nd....the mounts take eye ends and the viper shock has a clevis at 1 end. Here are your options and how to do it.
USING VIPER SHOCKS
You need to get longer radius rods, steering rods and spacer for the sway bar. You then have 3 options to mount the shocks.
1. Mount the clevis off-set in the existing mount. You need to make/find custom bushings to mount properly.
2. Cut off the clevis from the viper shock and the eye from your original shock and weld the eye in place of the clevis to make the viper shock have eyes on both sides. It will then bolt right in. In my opinion.....this is the easiest and best way to do it.
USING STOCK FRONT SHOCKS
You can still use your stock shocks with the long travel rear. The viper shocks only get you 1 more inch of travel anyway. I deemed that it just wasn't worth the extra $$ and time for me to get the wider front end and 1 more inch of travel so this is the way I went. You have 2 options here:
1. Remove the upper shock mount brackets and flip them around. This places the mounting eye lower and will give you the desired front end height. Some grinding and washers/spacers will be needed to get these to mount properly. Take them off and you will see immediately what needs to be done...no sense wasting space here explaining....it's nothing major.
2. You can buy yourself some aftermarket shock mounts that bolt right in. Hauck has them and I found a guy on ebay selling them. $30-50 is what you will pay.
Hope that helps.....
The front is a lot trickier. The viper front shocks will NOT go onto the front as is for 2 reasons. 1st....the shocks are just way too long for the stock radius rods. 2nd....the mounts take eye ends and the viper shock has a clevis at 1 end. Here are your options and how to do it.
USING VIPER SHOCKS
You need to get longer radius rods, steering rods and spacer for the sway bar. You then have 3 options to mount the shocks.
1. Mount the clevis off-set in the existing mount. You need to make/find custom bushings to mount properly.
2. Cut off the clevis from the viper shock and the eye from your original shock and weld the eye in place of the clevis to make the viper shock have eyes on both sides. It will then bolt right in. In my opinion.....this is the easiest and best way to do it.
USING STOCK FRONT SHOCKS
You can still use your stock shocks with the long travel rear. The viper shocks only get you 1 more inch of travel anyway. I deemed that it just wasn't worth the extra $$ and time for me to get the wider front end and 1 more inch of travel so this is the way I went. You have 2 options here:
1. Remove the upper shock mount brackets and flip them around. This places the mounting eye lower and will give you the desired front end height. Some grinding and washers/spacers will be needed to get these to mount properly. Take them off and you will see immediately what needs to be done...no sense wasting space here explaining....it's nothing major.
2. You can buy yourself some aftermarket shock mounts that bolt right in. Hauck has them and I found a guy on ebay selling them. $30-50 is what you will pay.
Hope that helps.....