Bent suspension arms. Bent frame mounts or bent frame.

 

have you taken it for a ride after adj the shocks?

 

Spring sag??

 

Measure all the shocks and see how close the fronts are and how close the rears are to each other. Drive the car. When you are stopping. Try to let it come to a rolling stop and not a brake stop. Then Measure again.

 

Without knowing some more details, like age, mileage, terrain and driving habits this is hard to guess. I am thinking a broken spring coil.

 

I ride fast hardpack trails and also do some short course racing. It only has 650 miles total and I have tipped it over and bent the stock roll cage. I just put brand new 2.0/2.5 cognitos on and before I installed them I made sure the preload was equal and there is no spring sag. When I am looking from the rear, the driver side bed rail is 2-3 inches lower than the passenger side so that rules out the gas tank.

 

remember the gas tank is on the passanger side, if full thats alot of weight when no ones sitting in it. also i recall an xp having a leaning problem on here and its turned out that polaris put a front spring onto a rear shock

 

Any chance you rolled it onto the passenger side?

 

Yeah it rolled onto passenger side

 

Frame is bent

 

That's what I was thinking. Sounds like it may have come back onto 4 wheels really hard. In theory, if your RZR weighs 1200 lbs, and it comes down onto all four wheels from 60" in the air, then you just dropped 600 lbs of weight onto the suspension from 5 feet. All of that leverage will also compound the hit. I think you either bent the frame, or bent the A-Arms, or both. I would not drive it until you find the problem, and repair it accordingly. Just my .02

 

More questions. When and Why did you put the Cognitos on?

 

I got new shocks because the rears were slightly bent

 

lets see some pics..

 

Agreed.

 

Ill get some pics tomorrow

 

Did you have a V-8 today.


Team Red-bull

 

From the rear notice how the passenger side bed rails are higher than the drivers side but from the front it doesn't seem to lean at all

 

OK, good pics. How did you bend the shocks. (be honest)
Has it leaned from the day you installed the new shocks?

 

When I rolled it, the axle, radius rods, trailing arm and shock on the passenger side were all bent. And I never really noticed a lean before the cognitos so it's hard to say.

 

If you replaced all those items, then would suspect the frame is bent, or best the mounting point are bent.

 

It's not the shocks! It's either the shock-springs, or a tweaked frame and/or trailing-arm or A-arm, and it should be fairly easy to determine which. My two bits.................

Cheers

 

After the crash, the trailing arm mount on the frame was bent but i had it straightened and i added utv incs gussets. Whats the best way to determine if i have a bent frame?

 

I would start by obtaining 4 jack-stands, exactly alike, then jack-up your RZR on a flat surface (such as your garage floor) and place 1 jack-stand under each extreme corner of your frame. Be sure to measure each jack-stand to make absolutely certain that it's extended-length is exactly the same as the others, and you may have to remove your belly-pan so that the frame is resting directly on the jack-stands. It is important that, after jacking-up your RZR, the laterally-positioned (side-to-side) jacks are contacting the frame in the exact same positions, and that the frame, at each of the 4 supported corners measures exactly the same heigth from the floor. If, at this point, your RZR is "rocking" a bit on the jacks and won't sit absolutely flat, that's a good preliminary indication that the frame is twisted.

Ok, now pull all 4 wheels and carefully measure the distance/s from the floor to the center axle-stub/s (in the center of the hub/s). The 2 front ones should measure the same as each other, and the two rear ones should measure the same as each other, but the front and the rears probably won't measure the same as each other. If one of the two rear floor-to-hub-center distances is different than the other, or one of the two front floor-to-hub-center distances is different than the other, then there's a good probability that your suspension-arms, front and/or rear are bent or tweaked, and by comparative-measuring, you should be able to determine which one.

Long-winded, but I hope this helps........

Cheers

 

Bar, you hit the nail on the head with the diagnosis procedure. Best of luck, but I'm guessing the left rear corner of the chassis is tweaked.