lowering links question

[portuguese katana]

hey everybody I have a question i have lowering links for my 05 kat and i havent installed them yet cause im worried about the rear shock. Should I stiffin the Rear suspension when i install the links or leave it alone???? thanks guys/gals

[Jester1]

I've just gotten the same and have the same question.....I have 2" lowering links.

[bagyo]

Tmod, another member of this site hooked me up with lowering links dropping it 1 inch. I stiffened up the suspension with that tool that I think comes in your tool bag. If you don't got it CP has em cuz thats where i got mine from. Tmod actually stiffened it up quite a bit to 5 I believe, but the ride was a little rough so a week or so later I took it down a notch to 4.

[portuguese katana]

mine is on 5 now which i believe is stock should i take it up to 7 or is that too much

[bagyo]

did you lower your kat yet? I can't really recall what the stock setting is but I know We put it up. 5 was too rought for me thats why I took it down to 4. The freeway was just way too bumpy. so I'm imagining 7 would be waay to stiff in my opinion. It's really personal preference.

mine is on 5 now which i believe is stock should i take it up to 7 or is that too much

[portuguese katana]

i recently installed the links and if i recall correctly it dropped the bike 3'' it looks good but i think its a bit much i have had the links since winter and i just installed them today. i only wanted to drop the rear 2'' not 3''

[bagyo]

yeah. I went to Tmods today and we had to adjust the whole suspension pretty much. front and rear. the Kat was scrapping during the twisties alot on the side so we had to tighting up the spring. From his observations and what I was telling him it was waay to soft. we hooked up a new race tech spring on it which is sweet and it seems to be riding great now. that is a big drop huh? 3" must be super low. Really though, the person to ask about this is Tmod. I told him of your situation so you probably should pm him if you got questions about how much you should tighten it and what you can do to make it a bit safer ride because that became a concern with me when I took a few turns too wide during a recent ride.