Max shocks on Short frame Outlander

Can't you essentially set your own ride height via the adjustable collars?

BombardierBomb said:

Can't you essentially set your own ride height via the adjustable collars?

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But if i think right , you would soften it up alot. From the factory the rear of the max should be higher so that the passenger sits “above” the rider. And a SWB Outlander sits nearly even front to back.

Pretty sure that's more to do with the actual elevated rear/max seat, tho, @p_hauschild

There might be a "slight" difference in max rears vs shortys, but man, it's next to nothing afaik, and certainly something you could work around, with adjustable collars, I'd have to think

BombardierBomb said:

Pretty sure that's more to do with the actual elevated rear/max seat, tho, @p_hauschild

There might be a "slight" difference in max rears vs shortys, but man, it's next to nothing afaik, and certainly something you could work around, with adjustable collars, I'd have to think

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I actually measured my Outlander with an 650 xt-p and there was some difference in the height to the fenders. The difference front to back was bigger

But don't the XT-P shocks have adjustable perches? Do yours have the threaded collars, or just the little 5-pos detent collars?

BombardierBomb said:

But don't the XT-P shocks have adjustable perches? Do yours have the threaded collars, or just the little 5-pos detent collars?

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Mine has the 5position collars. And yeah the XT-P have the same shocks as i send above on the ebay listing. I would like the foxes but i want to know if someone has experience with MAX shocks on a SWB outty. So i dont buy 1500$ shocks and the machine sits like a kicked duck with the front facia sniffing the ground.

Reason I asked, if you had your collars down, and that XT-P had turned theirs up a little, I mean, it's skewing your eyeball test results, make sense?

BombardierBomb said:

Reason I asked, if you had your collars down, and that XT-P had turned theirs up a little, I mean, it's skewing your eyeball test results, make sense?

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I have them in the middle + spacers so mine sits pretty high but the difference front to back (height) is worring me

The max shocks aren't going to make it set higher then it will with your regular shocks. It's nothing to do with the height. It's to do with the spring rate itself. Max shocks have stiffer springs to compensate for they have your load of a second passenger, meaning they're going to compress a little bit harder than your regular springs on the short frame. It may give a slight increase in height but we're talking like a quarter to a half inch. Not enough that you really going to see it. And as mentioned before, they have nothing to do with making it easier for the two upright or to see the two up seat. Does that by elevating the second person approximately 4 inches higher than the bike seat for the driver.

Compare the part #'s on the fiche .
The max may use a thicker wire diameter to compensate for the weight of a passenger.
If the numbers on the fiche are the same from shorty to max you should be good .