You're welcome Jake, glad I helped! Hpe I can get my friend's Chinese carb sorted out enough to be usable - is starting and idling nice, and driving full speed pretty good, just an occasional hesitation, and sometimes die on letting off the throttle - getting close. If you want let me know how it goes with your true-blue OEM rebuild, might be interesting to compare........Cheers Jake!~ Bellarmine

If you look at each shock you'll find at one end of the spring, there's a sleeve that can be rotated. As the sleeve's rotated it moves endways to put more or less pressure on the spring. They are made to be moved with a "C" spanner, which most people don't have, but can be rotated with a pipe wrench if care is taken. They don't get moved often and so the sleeve tends to be jammed full between the sleeve and the shock with dirt. It needs cleaning a bit, and lubing with some oil, before trying to turn it with a pipe wrench. Find the adjuster and clean it as best you can, give it a spray with lube, and then try turning the sleeve a little in either direction, then the other direction. Work it back and forwards a little at a time until it rotates, and slides, nicely. Then back it off till there.s minimum preload on the spring. If you don't clean it nicely, and lube it, there's a danger the pipe wrench will crush the sleeve against the shock doing damage. Clean it, lube it, and work it gently till it turns and slides..

I put some seafoam injector cleaner in mine. It would miss a little if I had been riding a while, especially after I shut it off for a few minutes. So far I think it's helped with this issue. It's the first time I've put anything other than gas in it. I admit I was Leary at first, but it hasn't hurt it yet that I know of. I pray it doesn't. Lol. Btw, mine is fuel injected

That I do, always use 93

Nope - straight regular gaz. I suppose I should use premium non ethenol blend near the end of the season.

I've actually thought about that, especially for fuel injected ATVs. I was looking at this for my grizzly, although not fuel injected.