Kagama How bouncy was your Kagama4s out the box

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AggyMi said:
Would love to but Kagama4 doesn't have adjustable shock mounts, I suppose I could move the bottom of the shock to the outer hole on the arm

Yeah I think I already concluded somewhere further up that the factory supplied oil of 1000/800 needs to be changed, will get some 600/500 ordered and go from there.
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That's what Corally recommended. Even that's on the thick side for a fairly light an off-road truck.

It's the same as what I run on my XTR.
 
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All done and suspension seems far more compliant and supple with a simple drop test, a lot less bounce and reverb.

When I took all the springs off the shocks all of the shocks had varying degrees of oil rebound with two of them being shockingly bad (no pun intended) which kind of shocked me because the little bleed hole in the cap makes it so easy to set them up properly, maybe Stevie Wonder did mine. 🤔
 
AggyMi said:
All done and suspension seems far more compliant and supple with a simple drop test, a lot less bounce and reverb.

When I took all the springs off the shocks all of the shocks had varying degrees of oil rebound with two of them being shockingly bad (no pun intended) which kind of shocked me because the little bleed hole in the cap makes it so easy to set them up properly, maybe Stevie Wonder did mine. 🤔
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I got my Spark done had a little bash time yesterday amazing how much different they take bumps jumps etc after spending a little time setting up for how you drive. Fan shroud just arrived for my Kagama4 so I’ll start on full service and suspension setting up tonight
 
Glad I saw this thread couple weeks ago. My Punisher was also bouncy, not compliant on rough terrain. Just finished redoing the shocks with same 600/500 oil and also went with soft springs. Hoping for the best but have to wait for a few other parts to put it all back together.
 
Anybody seen Shortround9191?

Haven't seen him post in quite a while.
 
slomoe said:
Glad I saw this thread couple weeks ago. My Punisher was also bouncy, not compliant on rough terrain. Just finished redoing the shocks with same 600/500 oil and also went with soft springs. Hoping for the best but have to wait for a few other parts to put it all back together.
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You won't regret it, changed my opinion of my Kag4 180. Honestly the handling over rough stuff was embarrassing at first, much better now.
 
Changed out to shock oil and put soft springs on, but never ran the soft springs. felt it was probably to soft of a spring rate. Would have had to adjust the preload collars substantially to get arms to be flatish. Another time perhaps for a general comparison. Took it out for a run and did make a huge difference. A must from stock @ least for me.
 
slomoe said:
Changed out to shock oil and put soft springs on, but never ran the soft springs. felt it was probably to soft of a spring rate. Would have had to adjust the preload collars substantially to get arms to be flatish. Another time perhaps for a general comparison. Took it out for a run and did make a huge difference. A must from stock @ least for me.
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Agree with everything here, I did not like it out of the box at all. I stuck with the standard springs and just changed the oil, the difference in handling on the rough stuff is like night and day, I can only guess that they set them up stock in this way as they assume most people will be running on the tarmac road right outside their house.

The other small changes I made that made a big different to air control were reducing the max droop, the rear end on mine oscillated terribly with no droop screws. I went with some very cheap Hobao dome heads packed with washers.

The other thing I did was balance the wheels with a cheap AliExpress balancer and plumbers putty.

Flies straight and true now and much less stress on components
 
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