'00 ZX6R rear ride height
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'00 ZX6R rear ride height
Can anyone tell me what the standard rear ride height should be for a '98-'00 ZX6R should be and where you are measuring from or whatyou're running at the track and again where you're measuring from-to?
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Get yourself a kawasaki workshop manual fopr your bike. They have all the info you could ever need. You find them cheap on fleabay often.
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Yeah i tried my manual first but no go, not in my copy any way.
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Not the owners manual, the workshop manual, it'll be about 300 pages thick 

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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Yes it is, still no good though !
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Is this what you want: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBlqVx4m ... r_embedded#!
I also have the workshop manual for this bike in pdf format (searchable)
Its about 90meg let me know if you want it.
I also have the workshop manual for this bike in pdf format (searchable)

Its about 90meg let me know if you want it.
Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
I have the same model, I had the suspension done by a well known bloke, and the bike handled terrible, had no feeling in the front. Was advised by someone at a trackday that this model did not like being stood on its nose which is what the susp tuner had done, I put the forks flush with the top clamp and the rear ride height adjuster 5mm above min, 30mm sag at front, 25mm sag at rear, and the bike was instantly better, I think this would be a good place for you to start and tweek it from there.
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
I need to know how where to set the lock nut on the thread where it bolts through the frame bracket at the top of the shock.


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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Standard would be all the way down. Try 5mm up tho. Worked on my j series.
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Thanks, looks like i'll have to lower slightly.Six Addict wrote:Standard would be all the way down. Try 5mm up tho. Worked on my j series.
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Re: '00 ZX6R rear ride height
Stock is definatly all the way down.
BUT if you adjust the hieght up you need to put a packer between the bottom nut and the top of the shock. There are only two small welds that hold the bolt in there, AND THEY DO BREAK.
The bracket (gold) needs to take the load, not the bolt.
I'll get a picture of one of mine if you're not sure what i mean.
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BUT if you adjust the hieght up you need to put a packer between the bottom nut and the top of the shock. There are only two small welds that hold the bolt in there, AND THEY DO BREAK.

I'll get a picture of one of mine if you're not sure what i mean.
cheers
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