Okay here is the update...
Installed the 430's (PN# 1310-0412) these were the standard duty spring rate 11.5" for sportster models.
I needed to "sleeve" the new shocks to fit the mounting posts on my bike as they were slightly loose and the kit that was suplied did not fit the posts. What I ended up using was some copper tubing 1/2" from the plumbing dept at the local big box hardware store and tapping them onto the factory posts (actually worked great just had to be a little carefull with a block of wood to not deform the copper, bt I bought a 8" piece and cut the 4 sleeves to size myself incase there was a problem and its only a couple of bucks for the tube).
Great news! I got them mounted on the bike and it that is all about it with the great.
The problem... shocks are sooo soft that I practicaly was sitting on the bump stops, factory sends them adjusted to soft setting. I completly adjusted them to there firm setting and they don't bottom out now just sitting on the bike, but after a little bit of a ride they bottom out on te bump stops over expansion joints and big bumps in the road. They ride awesome on avg road conditions but I also just got the seat back from a treatment at mean city cycles, so between the two as long as the road decent my backside was in heaven. However, this absoultly won't be able to do 2 up on this set-up. So, while they look great on the bike, these won't work out for me.
Talked with progression today, suggested that I get the heavy duty springs and give that a try. Thinking that may be a Dyna shock may be better suited but now I need to check the spring rates from what our factory shocks were and compare them to the options of keeping the ones I got now and swaping out the coils to heavy duty or going to standard duty dyna.
Any thoughts or knowledge that may be of aid? Seems I should have done more homework on the spring rates other than the bkes weigh roughly close to the same.
Last edited by MD_America; 05/04/2010 12:26 PM.
