Fixing the moose!!!!

You can see in the pics where it was starting to fail. The first pic is of the lift block. You can see where the tip of the screwdriver is at. The second pic, you can see on the top of the shock where the lift block was resting on the shock. The last pic is of my working space!!

The lift is sweet!

I don't know how old you are but it is safe to say "that lift is older than you"!!! It does make it nice to not have to lay on the ground to work on it.

wvyankee2 wrote:

The lift is sweet!

Most deff. I will have some type of lift in the future for sure.


Yep, your lift was giving out on you. I have the same marks on my shocks. I hope you get some time too work on it.

I fixed the Moose with a Tony's Toy's lift. I didnt have any problems with it the whole time I ran it.

DoddS wrote:

I fixed the Moose with a Tony's Toy's lift. I didnt have any problems with it the whole time I ran it.

The Tony's Toy lift is nice but I did not want to drill into the frame of the rhino. Now I have a really good moose lift with no holes in my frame.

Finished up the Big-R moose lift mod last week. We will see how it does at Windrock this week. We are leaving in the am.

Looks strong enough.

Have you ever checked to see just how much lift it yields? and whether the axles hit the frame with the wheels off the ground?

Looks good. Is it tighten up all the way? it looks wider and the shock then at the frame.

Wingman wrote:

Finished up the Big-R moose lift mod last week. We will see how it does at Windrock this week. We are leaving in the am.

The rear of my machine is 12.5" tot he skid. If you jack it up where the wheels are of the ground the axles do not touch the frame.

mud-and-guts wrote:

Looks strong enough.

Have you ever checked to see just how much lift it yields? and whether the axles hit the frame with the wheels off the ground?

Do you know what it measured before? Reason I ask I install a RDC lift on mine which yielded less than 1 inch lift and when I did the axles hit the frame when the shocks fully extended. I am thinking mine has just under 13 inches to the skid with no lift and no load.

mud-and-guts wrote:

Do you know what it measured before? Reason I ask I install a RDC lift on mine which yielded less than 1 inch lift and when I did the axles hit the frame when the shocks fully extended. I am thinking mine has just under 13 inches to the skid with no lift and no load.

Neal, that is a lot of lift with out a lift

I think the GC is measured at the down tubes in the middle of the machine. Now if you measure at that point I have about 13.5". At shock, it is 12.1". This is one of those little misleading things that manufactures do. It is kind of like a boat manufacturer tell you your boat is 26'. When it is really a 24' boat with a 2' swim platform attached.

Now, I have sport shocks with the springs about topped out. I am set up for a very smooth ride and I still have 12.5".

I always measure mine at the further most front and rear skids. My rear skid has almost 13 inches to the floor and my front has just under 11 inches to the floor.

I have the progressive shocks still set in the stock position.