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I purchased the rear sway bar from Durablue as soon as they started making one. after the original installation(by their directions) I thought I had wasted a bunch of money.
That being said the XX is my first experience with an IRS quad and I didnt like it for hard riding. I am a 300 lb rider and it just had way to much body roll to be able to pitch it into a turn.
So I removed the sway bar and started studying it. The forelinks have 5 adjustment holes, from softer to stiffer but, you could only use the 3 softest, the end links wouldnt reach the other two.
After a lot of thought I started altering the swaybar mounts. I reinstalled the bar to set in the center of the upper sway bar instead of behind the frame this allowed me to use the stiffer of the settings on the forelinks.
I did have to cut the forelinks because of clearance problems but I dont have any plans to ever change back. I also had to cut a little off of the original mounts so also irreversible. One more cut was made to a gusset on the a-arm mounting bracket on the subframe for clearance but could have been avoided by making a spacer and useing a longer bolt that i didn't have.
But after making these changes I absolutely love this setup. there is almost no body roll while still allowing the IRS to do its job in the ruff stuff.
I am gonna send pics of the changes I made to Durablue to see if they will make a better set of brackets to mount the swaybar where i did
That being said the XX is my first experience with an IRS quad and I didnt like it for hard riding. I am a 300 lb rider and it just had way to much body roll to be able to pitch it into a turn.
So I removed the sway bar and started studying it. The forelinks have 5 adjustment holes, from softer to stiffer but, you could only use the 3 softest, the end links wouldnt reach the other two.
After a lot of thought I started altering the swaybar mounts. I reinstalled the bar to set in the center of the upper sway bar instead of behind the frame this allowed me to use the stiffer of the settings on the forelinks.
I did have to cut the forelinks because of clearance problems but I dont have any plans to ever change back. I also had to cut a little off of the original mounts so also irreversible. One more cut was made to a gusset on the a-arm mounting bracket on the subframe for clearance but could have been avoided by making a spacer and useing a longer bolt that i didn't have.
But after making these changes I absolutely love this setup. there is almost no body roll while still allowing the IRS to do its job in the ruff stuff.
I am gonna send pics of the changes I made to Durablue to see if they will make a better set of brackets to mount the swaybar where i did
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