endofitall9 Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Well.. I got off the phone with my proaction suspension guy........ i told him I had a bust 450 shock I wanted rebuilt he said no problem...he also said he could do bost and "tweak them so they would rebound way quicker....he said with the spring off the yfz shocks they reound at about 4 seconds but when I get the back they'd rebound in 2. also I was complaining to him about the yfz shocks being way long and ruining the ball joints on our banshees...he said the proaction guys have been shortening them to make them the length of banshee shock so they will work way better and be a direct bolt on (length wize). He only said good things about the yamaha shocks he said you can get them serviced and they'll be just as good as anyother suspension...he said they now have triple rate springs for them as well.... he have me a price.......to fix my shock rebuild them make the rebound faster and turn them into triple rates also shortening the shock shaft...it was unbeatable I dont want to say exactly how much but you cant buy a set of aftermarkets for what he priced this to me for!.............. Sorry for making another thread...........the other one got hijacked........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHead Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 I am mostly responsible for hijacking your other thread. Sorry about that. I actually posted this in there the other day. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/YAMAHA-YFZ4...sspagenameZWDVW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofitall9 Posted March 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 no biggie ............the link dont work "page error" or something...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHead Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 no biggie ............the link dont work "page error" or something...... Dammit. The auction must have been cancelled or something as I can't find it on eBay at the moment. The auction was for a single YZF450 front shock that had a Buy it Know price of like $10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiftdT4R Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Hmmm, I'm not doubting you or anything, but basically your gonna pay $200 for a set of YFZ front shocks on fleabay. I can't imagine that build costing any less then $200 for all that work, springs, labor, valving, unless they arent using really good stuff. At that you at $400 which you can get Elka E36s for. Personally, I think e36s would be better shocks then the YFZs, but to each is own. Any chance you could post up some prices on that? I am curious to see how it would cheaper then aftermarket shocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofitall9 Posted March 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 the shocks were free I paid nothing for them but one had a broken shock shaft.......... I know this guy extremely well he's my dads old buddy and just so happens to be a very good friend of mine also.......that being said he pulls some legs and............whaaa laa I get a really good price for everythng I want... I already tore the shocks down so they just need to be put together.....he charges $150 to even touch a shock well that was free......him revalving them is free the only thing I have to pay for is the tripple rate springs and the shortened shock shaft with that being said the big ole price comes to $255.82 the people that paid this for the 07 shocks are crazy "free shocks plus a rebuild that should be in the $400 range i would say I'm getting a dirt cheap deal...and I assure you the parts are quality proaction suspension are the guys that had a big hand in developing axis suspension the pistons in the shock are actually proactions they are EXACTLY them same............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiftdT4R Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Ohh yeah, in that case, that is an awesome deal! I was thinking you had to at least know somebody, or something, because there is a good amount of labor and parts that go into building a good shock. Post up some pics! I'm interested to see what they look like, sounds sweet! :beer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofitall9 Posted March 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 I;m not sure I'm going to do it yet hes trying to talk me into it though, as of now i bidding on a pair of wrks dble on ebay so if i win them ill just scrap these but if not i'll prolly be rebuilding the yfz shocks.........if thats the case ill for sure let you guys see them and know what the pros and cons are if any......it'll be a write up........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHead Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 I;m not sure I'm going to do it yet hes trying to talk me into it though, as of now i bidding on a pair of wrks dble on ebay so if i win them ill just scrap these but if not i'll prolly be rebuilding the yfz shocks.........if thats the case ill for sure let you guys see them and know what the pros and cons are if any......it'll be a write up........ I need a new office ornament if you want to get rid of the one good YFZ shock and it's in good shape cosmetically. :geek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofitall9 Posted March 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 as of now the the springs have been sandblasted so when I get time I can shoot some pc on them.......not sure what I'm going to do yet.....have to see how the works pan out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHead Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Alright, just let me know. I am not in any hurry to have more crap for visitors to play in my office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 I am mostly responsible for hijacking your other thread. Sorry about that. HA, i take the other half of that credit. Umm, how do you shorten a shock? Turn the body down, shorten the shaft and rebuild? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHead Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 HA, i take the other half of that credit. Umm, how do you shorten a shock? Turn the body down, shorten the shaft and rebuild? Preface: It all depends on what type our application of shock we are talking about. In fact, let's not even talk about this until we know the specific shock that we are going to be talking about. I have to go to a directors meeting here in a few miutes, but I'll be back on here later tonght. :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofitall9 Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Dont quote me on this. the way I understand it is.. on the yfz shocks, to shorten the shock they are replacing the piston with a shorter one not as long as the original factory on at the same time they are putting a shim, spacer or whatever you want to call it under the piston for it to rest on when it is full extended therefore stoping the shock shaft from coming out to the fully extended way of stock,, i know these seems really easy, i dont know though he said it can be done and he knows his shit so .............thats all i can go by at the moment....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHead Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Dont quote me on this. the way I understand it is.. on the yfz shocks, to shorten the shock they are replacing the piston with a shorter one not as long as the original factory on at the same time they are putting a shim, spacer or whatever you want to call it under the piston for it to rest on when it is full extended therefore stoping the shock shaft from coming out to the fully extended way of stock,, i know these seems really easy, i dont know though he said it can be done and he knows his shit so .............thats all i can go by at the moment....... If this is in regard to a YFZ450 shock you probably need to pose the question to gimmeeabeer as I haven't seen the inside of one of those shocks yet. If you want to talk about shortening shocks in general, there are many ways to do it. It depends on what shock you want to shorten and for what application. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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