Yfz450x shocks alba long travel?

[Bansheep]

Hello everyone,  new on here.. Anyway I have a set of yfz450x shocks, and spindles with calipers and master cyl. Curious if getting the alba long travel a arms is a decent setup,? I fast trail ride mostly.. I'm about 240lbs. My bike has +2 +1 with works triple rates on it now. I use all the travel up pretty easy.

[ginger]

I think it will be worse then what you have now, if your triple rates are set up correctly.  

[sheerider11]

I think alba arms needs 18 plus. I believe X shocks are 16ish

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[Bansheep]

I think the works shocks need to be rebuilt,  I wonder if I can try to run the x shocks on my a arms I have already on?

[ginger]

a factory shock is never as good as one tuned for your setup and your weight. 

 

[97Screamer]

If you are bottoming out your Works shocks they are not properly setup. Bottoming out has nothing to do with shaft travel. The Alba arms take a 17.5" shock. Standard travel +2 arms a 14.75" shock. Neither will work properly with x shocks. Sell the x shocks and use the money to get your Works setup for you.

 

[Steven66]

Send your shocks to Jocaga suspension works and he will shorten the shock to work for your arms

[ginger]

24 minutes ago, Steven66 said:

Send your shocks to Jocaga suspension works and he will shorten the shock to work for your arms

how does one go shortening the shock?  

[97Screamer]

The common way its done is with a spacer in the body. Waste of money. The yfz shocks already don't have enough shaft travel, putting a spacer inside is hard on the internals and also further reduces shaft travel and in turn wheel travel. Often time the people that do this mod also don't respring the shock so not even that is setup correctly. 

The fact is yfzr shocks are great shocks but to have them PROPERLY setup for a banshee you would be in them for far more than much better aftermarket shocks.