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Old 09-22-2012, 08:40 AM   #1
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Default Long travel G9 question

I currently have a home made 6-7" lift with 400 ex shocks front and rear on my 94 G9.

In your opinion what would be the best option for a long travel on my front end. I can weld and fabricate so I'm open to quad suspensions. I just don't kwon which one would be easiest to install and find used. Or a jakes LT...

Currently my front end bottoms the tires hit the frame. I have 20-10-10. And it's pretty stiff and bouncy.
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Old 09-23-2012, 03:24 PM   #2
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Default Re: Long travel G9 question

One guy on here did a polaris sportsman 500 front, its pretty wide and nice. Others have done various ATV fronts. I think that is the way I'd go long as it was reasonable to buy one. Then you get disk brakes in the deal too. Suppose I'd need to get/make adapters to get 4/4 cart wheels back on it is the only negative. Beyond that I'd research and buy a LT according to my uses, its just that an atv front is proven offroad and has brakes, good shocks and all; its hard to beat. I can fab it onto the cart no problem just another project lol. I'm sure a LT kit is going to be much faster/easier to put on of course. Most say the LTs with their own shocks are best, though you can fit some other shock to one.
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Old 12-24-2012, 03:04 PM   #3
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Default Re: Long travel G9 question

I did a Polaris predator 500 front end on mine. I bought some wheel adapters for the front and also had to get 3" spacers to make the wheels close to the same width.



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Old 12-24-2012, 04:01 PM   #4
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I figured you could chop the atv frame in half and widen it there if needed, though it may be more work to line it back up straight. Also have to run spacers to get back to 4/4 wheels right?
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Old 12-24-2012, 04:11 PM   #5
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That would seem to be more work. I have 3\4 " spacers/adapters in the front.
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Old 12-24-2012, 08:33 PM   #6
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jmz...how hard is your cart to steer with the steering wheel sitting at an angle in front of you?
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Not to hard. I find myself using the passenger side of the wheel mostly. I tried to get the same angle as the factory Yamaha steering column but I have a little more angle because I did not measure enough and got in a little bit of a hurry when tacking it together.


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Old 12-24-2012, 10:58 PM   #8
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I figured you could chop the atv frame in half and widen it there if needed, though it may be more work to line it back up straight. Also have to run spacers to get back to 4/4 wheels right?
That's what I did. I used a Warrior atv front and widened it 8". Tacked it all together for a trial run.....9 months later it still is tacked together and holding up great! LOL!

I had the same problem with bottoming and camber issues with the stock G1 with 6" Jakes. I also switched to atv shocks and it bottomed worse. The camber issue is what sold me on the atv type front end.

No matter how you do it, the long travel double a arm setups are the "must have" and are far superior to any stock setup.
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Camber is what also made me do it. Was riding around town after a parade and a guy I know pointed at my cart wheels and said " what's wrong with your wheels !" , in front of a bunch of people. That was the last straw :). The predator front end was wider thang Yamaha cart front end. ?????


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Old 12-25-2012, 12:40 AM   #10
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Default Re: Long travel G9 question

an easy solution ,but not free. G-28 u-max front arms bolt right on and use your factory shocks too. they run about $105 per side msrp from yamaha, they are made by jakes for yamaha. good steering geometry and everything. you will have to buy the kingpin bushings for your G-9. then treat the installation as if they were the stock arms using the original hardware and kingpins. roughly 6 inch lift. i got ahold of a worn out pair to test the idea, it works. my buddy bought a new pair and bolted it right on. it also moves the front wheels forward some too.
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