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RAS 2 40" Freeride Goodness!

Devilmanak

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Yummy......Skidoo may have the RAS 2 in a 40" width on a Freeride next year, but I get to ride it for three more months! Thanks to Tom's Snowmobile for the shocks!
 

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Devilmanak

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I am amazed at how much better the RAS 2 is over the previous version. Much less darting on the trail for sure. I am also amazed that I took off 4 arms, spindles, and installed RAS 2 arms and spindles, and my ski alignment was still dead on. I guess it is all engineered from the same original parts, but it still surprised me.
Arms, spindles, shocks are all that is needed to convert. Ball joints, steering parts, swaybar stuff all the same. If you don't have the Doo balljoint tool, just buy new joints and sell your old arms with joints in them. Learned that the hard way. :)
 

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So i'm confused, Tom's had a 40" ras2 front end? or did you use your same a arms and just swapped spindles? I've got a 14 and 15 freeride and would love to do that to both of them
 
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I installed the RAS2 36" front end and kept the stock KYB shocks. Prefer the narrow front end anyways. Handles great.
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So i'm confused, Tom's had a 40" ras2 front end? or did you use your same a arms and just swapped spindles? I've got a 14 and 15 freeride and would love to do that to both of them
Backcountry 40" arms and RAS2 spindles, Tom had to make the correct length shocks for the 40" RAS 2. You can bolt on the non RAS 2 shocks to the RAS2 front end, but you are loosing travel. You will also bottom the shock on hard hits, I wasn't willing to take the chance.
RAS2 shocks, for all models, are SHORTER, as well as having MORE travel.
Tricky thing to do, which is why it has taken some trail and error.
I rode it again today, the front is awesome.
 

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Backcountry 40" arms and RAS2 spindles, Tom had to make the correct length shocks for the 40" RAS 2. You can bolt on the non RAS 2 shocks to the RAS2 front end, but you are loosing travel. You will also bottom the shock on hard hits, I wasn't willing to take the chance.
RAS2 shocks, for all models, are SHORTER, as well as having MORE travel.
Tricky thing to do, which is why it has taken some trail and error.
I rode it again today, the front is awesome.

where did you get the arms? and would my stock freeride shocks work?

Sorry for all the questions, i got excited when i saw this thread
 

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Lol, no worries!
The trick with the RAS2 stuff is shorter shocks, with more travel. It takes different internal shock parts to make this happen, Tom has a good understanding of it and through testing with some hillclimb guys, has it figured out. The set he sent me for testing work very well, much better than my Evol R setup I had with the stock Freeride suspension.
Doo makes the arms and spindles.
Upper arms:
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Lower arms:
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Spindles:
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Everything else bolts up, but do yourself a favor and order the upper balljoints also, they are fragile when removing and installing without the Doo special tool. If you can use the Doo tool, it is all good.
The lowers are like car/truck balljoints, you can pretty much beat on them without hurting them, other than leaving marks. The uppers have a plastic inner sleave that is pretty easy to break/damage if you install them without pressing on the races.
Uppers:
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Lowers:
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Oh, your Freeride stock shocks are not the right length or travel, but you can sell them and get a good chunk of what it would cost to buy the Foxes. That is what I did.
 

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Oh, your Freeride stock shocks are not the right length or travel, but you can sell them and get a good chunk of what it would cost to buy the Foxes. That is what I did.

luckily i've already got a guy bothering me to buy them. So because I ask a lot of questions, these arms are available right through brp? if that's the case i'm ordering when the dealership opens tuesday
 

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Yep, I got all the parts except for one arm really quickly, one lower arm was backordered and I had to wait a few weeks for it, but that was before Xmas. Dealer can tell you if the stuff is available or backordered.
 
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