Has anyone ever been able to source this 70600267? It is the upgraded 2-up spring for a Spyder F3.
I have a 2015 Base F3 and don't want to spend $300+ Canadian on a whole new spring and shock when it's the same stock shock with the upgraded 219400739 2-up shock and spring combo.
Also, how hard is it to change over the spring? I can't seem to find anything on the Forum. Thanks for the help.
Once a coil-over shock is properly charged & working, changing just the
SPRING without changing the shock as well, by dismantling the shock/coil assembly, can be a quite dangerous thing to do, even
with the right gear to release/compress the old spring in order to take it off the shock; then safely release that and compress the new spring to put it onto the shock; then release that in turn.... Get it wrong or have the shock or spring somehow release or slip out of the compressor's grasp & it could easily mean that someone'll need a rapid trip to the ER, or maybe they'll only need a slower trip to that other colder place!! :shocked:
There's a
LOT of force that can be stored in a compressed spring; and to get the spring off/on the shock you need to overcome a lot of the springs capability to store energy; at the very least, it'll need you to over-come all the spring pre-load force plus all the extra force necessary to make the spring short enough to allow the removal of the fittings holding it onto the shock as an assembly. You
REALLY don't want to be in the way of either the coil spring or the shock absorber if either is 'accidentally &/or suddenly released' during the spring compression &/or release process. I
DO HAVE the right gear to compress/release coil springs, from tiny coil overs to
much bigger semi-truck sized coil springs, waaay larger/stronger than those on our Spyders/Rykers run, but because of the inherent and unavoidable dangers involved in compressing/releasing coil-overs &/or coil springs if you need to swap them on the shock, then unless it's truly unavoidable, I simply
choose to get someone else to take those risks for me these days! :lecturef_smilie:
Besides, if you're going to bother changing the coil over on your F3 anyway, why not do the job properly and get an upmarket/better quality coil spring/shock assembly instead of just faffing around with the cheaply made lowest tenderer offerings that come from BRP as the OEM pieces of cra... Errr, kit? :dontknow: Sure, the OEM gear'll do the job....
Just!
pps: But for prices that start at not much more than the inflated OEM replacement coil/spring assy cost, you could get a much better quality & possibly even fully adjustable alternative, or if you really prefer you could blow your wallet to smithereens and get one of the all-singing all-dancing units the 'I-got-all-the-flashy-gear' wannabe riders have!
Not that we have too many of
them here, of course.
Most Spyder Ryders are well beyond needing to prove themselves that way.
Still, even if you don't want to go
quite that far, you could instead just check out the better-quality shock/coil alternatives used & mentioned by other Spyder Ryders here on the Forum, there's a pretty good range of products and prices - here's a thread that'll help:
https://www.spyderlovers.com/forums...ded-rear-shock-replacement-F3&highlight=Shock
Me, I'm running IKON's, but then my Spyder is an RT & I'm in Oz
hyea: But I'm sure you could find a whole range of 'better than anything OEM' in the way shocks/coils for your F3 at a suitable price point, wherever you are! :thumbup:
