YFZ suspension upgrade

[CruelSoul]

How hard is this upgrade is there a write up in here of everything step by step what years yfz will work on my 01 shee, need lots of info I have access to a nice 06 bill balance edition front end and would love to have this upgrade.

Edited March 1, 2012 by CruelSoul

[Acheron]

How hard is this upgrade is there a write up in here of everything step by step what years yfz will work on my 01 shee, need lots of info I have access to a nice 06 bill balance edition front end and would love to have this upgrade.

 

From what I have read people are having balljoint issues with this swap and you will probably be better off saving the extra few $ for a real banshee setup.

[CruelSoul]

Thanks I will look into this I have found the post on how-to do this upgrade.

[thomas h.]

My brother did it with spindles and we think it works well. He loves it. We cycled the suspenision there was no bind or extream angle. But it is just a dune trail bike if it was mx all ways jumping I would do real good stuff but for the sand cheap upgrade.

[bbcmudtruck]

I did the yfz swap and hated it. Do yourself a favor and save up for some +2 arms and some shocks made for the banshee. One thing you can use off of the 450 is the calipers and master cylinder. I did end up keeping those and they worked good. Other than that, don't even bother with the 450 shit.

[Larry's Shee]

Beleive it or not, I manually scrolled thru the whole suspension forum (because the search function sucks) for YFZ and J to A coversions. Probably half feel as BBC does, and another 25% won't admit it. I think I know why too. It's because the relation of the pivot points aren't correct for the arms. You have to do more than cut one side and add a spacer to the other.

 

You'd have to do it like this : http://www.blasterforum.com/suspension-14/guide-fitting-yfz-450-complete-front-suspension-blaster-36120/

[zach45]

The arms on the banshee sucked... The shocks aren't bad for a good price

[So Cal Suspension]

Beleive it or not, I manually scrolled thru the whole suspension forum (because the search function sucks) for YFZ and J to A coversions. Probably half feel as BBC does, and another 25% won't admit it. I think I know why too. It's because the relation of the pivot points aren't correct for the arms. You have to do more than cut one side and add a spacer to the other.

 

You'd have to do it like this : http://www.blasterforum.com/suspension-14/guide-fitting-yfz-450-complete-front-suspension-blaster-36120/

Dude, larry... WTF is that abortion? Looks scary as hell...

[Larry's Shee]

Not mine should have had more welding practice . It was the only example I could come up with to explain the relationship of the pivot points of the arms.