Just wanted to do a quick review on the shock service and revalve that I just had done by Ian at Monster Performance. Little back story, I’ve had these shocks installed on my machine since new, at the time I sent them in for service they had exactly 4050km’s on them, these were all aggressive miles and I was always happy with how well they worked and how they came set up from factory, I will make it clear I had no huge complaints with how they worked other than my front shocks were starting to get a little soft, and were always a touch softer than the rear seemed. They were showing signs of fatigue and both my front shock seals were starting to seep, they were long over due for service so I started looking at what my options were. Through my research Monster Performance came up with good reviews, he also ships a ton of shocks to Canada and offers a very fast turn around time, all things I was looking for, so I shot Ian an email with a couple of questions and ultimately decided to send my shocks to him, mainly because of his vast experience with Elka shocks and valving on ATV’s, a lot of companies can revalve Elkas but their experience is in the race world, and I didn’t want to chance getting my shocks back super stiff. I decided on getting my shocks revalved along with the service as I was interested in seeing if they could be made even better than they were originally, and off they went. I got them back in approx. 10 business days, Ian said he had completely changed the valving to meet my needs, and I had a chance to get out and ride and tune them today. He had left my rebound set where it was before and I set my compression clickers to the middle of the adjustment range and went at it, even within the first few miles I knew that my shocks had greatly improved. Spent about 5-6 hours riding and adjusting at the stops today and got them dialed in pretty close to perfect, its unbelievable how smooth they are now, even at low speeds, and the handling has also improved, very responsive and predictable in the turns. All in all I am very pleased with the outcome, and I will say I’m pretty hard to impress, I wont go as far as to say it was a night and day difference, but they have markedly improved. Ian has very fair rates and his service is top notch, I would highly recommend him to anybody out there with shocks in need of service, especially if your looking for a custom revavle.

Hi guys,

I need some help on deciding what atv to get, a 2016 570 L DPS max or 2016 650 DPS max? I just sold my 2014 650 XMR, I’m worried that the 570 won’t have enough power for me. How fast is the 570 compared to a 650 xmr? The price difference is about $2500, so I’m leaning towards the 570. Please help me out.

Thanks

Where can I find a carb for this bike. The three venders that said they had it, I had to send it back because it was wrong

Do these 420 have any grease nipples.

Worked on a Shifting problem today. Changed out the shift angle sensor. I pulled way too much plastic off, but then I thought I knew what was doing. Sensor is NOT on the Front of the Crankcase cover like a lot of others. On this Rancher it’s on the Rear Crankcase cover. If I had jacked up the back end and pulled the plastic skid plate off the middle section, I would have found it. It’s just a little off center on the left. 2 cap screws needing a 4mm allen wrench and pulling the gray connector off. 3 wires to this. Others have mentioned that the new sensor needs to be "pre-loaded" to fit onto the offset "key". Remove the old one and match the new one. That’s what I did and it worked well for me.
I also went to the front Crankcase cover and about dead center is the shift motor. 5 screws, 3 that hold the motor and 2 shorter ones on the bottom of the "gear case" All 5 must be removed. I found very little grease in there but I did remove it and put some Lithium Grease on the gears. I had read that the grease get hard when its cold and is another cause of weird shift problems.
Tested this out and all is good. If I had to change the Shift Angle Sensor out again, it would on take about 30 minutes.

Hope this helps someone else, it was fun playing with this and did fix the problem for me…

2001 Ds650 with spark, I’m trying to cross things off as possible reasons. The kill switch is working i’m getting 6v ac off the stator and .6v ac out if the spark pickup. Are those numbers correct and if so what am I missing. Is it possible both could went bad at the same time because I have no spark on with plug. Thanks in advance

DS 650 with no spark we are currently trying to figure out why I have six bolts coming off my stater and about 6 V coming off my pick up is that correctif these two things are correct what am I missing is it as simple as bad coils both spark plugs give no spark

DS 650 with no spark we are currently trying to figure out why I have six bolts coming off my stater and about 6 V coming off my pick up is that correctif these two things are correct what am I missing is it as simple as bad coils both spark plugs give no spark

Not sure if this is the right topic for here I am new. I have come into posesion of a ORV with a Honda ATV engine on it. the engine runs strong but need some parts and can not find any info on it. I was told it came off a 3 or 4 wheeler. the only numbers i can find anywhere on the engine is this in the picture.

2002 Grizz 660
Hard to start. I hit the starter button and it turns over fine but does not start until I take pressure off the starter button. And still then it won’t start every time.
It will just turn over and over?
Any ideas?