Rear shock has popped....

[CaNsA]

I have a spare in the garage that i'm thinking of using.
I aint paying silly money for a used one, aftermarket or otherwise.
But a mate has one from a zx6r F1 that has the same part number on the fiche.

So,
ZX6r F1
http://www.kawasakimotorcyclespares.co. ... 6/2077.jpg

vs

http://www.zxrworld.co.uk/images/Lseries/lrearshk.gif

Will it fit?

[CaNsA]

FYI, it does fit, you just need to take 1mm off either side of the top bolt carrier.

[CaNsA]

A few things i need to sort out..

There is no sag, feels a bit hard, rebounds at a decent rate.
The shock has a remote reservoir, a screw setting on the bottom of the shock with 4 settings, and obviously the spring.
Which part is for compression, pre-load, rebound?
And which should i adjust to give me a bit of sag and soften the butt a bit?
cheers peeps

[cargo]

if you have no static sag you need to back off the preload the more you take off the more sag.........pre load is the adjustment on the spring itself two rings one adjusts the other is a locking ring.

You need enough sag to stop the suspension from topping out when you ride it...............start around 10mm of sag measured between the swing arm and a fixed point on the subframe.

Rebound is adjusted from the bottom of the shock if my memory is right................you need to set this so that the bike returns to steady state in one even movement no matter how forcefully much you try to compress the suspension................rebound prevents spring boing

and you need enough compression dampening to stop the bike walowing around as you ride it but not so much that it stops the bike squating a little ath the rea when you apply power exiting a corner.


Once you get a basic set up that feels reasonable then only adjust one thing at a time to experiment and each thing that you adjust has an effect on the others so slowly carefully catchy monkey

[CaNsA]

Cheers fella.