Bolt the rear of the shock to the bike also using red loc tite.ĥ. Determine the length of the shock and attach the rear joints (using red loc tite).
Remove the battery from the battery boxĤ. Remove the stock shocks on your bike (this is usually the most difficult part of the install)Ģ. Yes, there is one air line on the Shotgun Shock that goes from the compressor to the shock body where the check valve is located to ensure the shock will never lose pressure while riding. While the SAS is a complete one piece unit, there are some connectors that need to be attached to the wiring and a little bit of wiring required to get it hooked up whereas the Shotgun Shock comes with plugs on the wiring so all that needs to be done is plug in the male to the female side, and put the supplied piece of heat shrink over the connector. The SAS and Shotgun Shock are both very simple installs with slight differences in varying areas each making one easier than the other in differing ways. This is the perfect choice for those with softails with ABS as with the Shotgun Shock the compressor mounts where the ABS module is thus making it impossible to mount the compressor and the shock on an ABS bike unless you get extremely creative mounting the compressor.Ī lot of people are concerned about the install of any air ride system and how complicated it is. This gives it a dampening action similar to a hydraulic dampener. When it tries to expel that air, those valves close and the trapped air has to be expelled through two small holes. The free air can rush in and fill that chamber by two disc valves opening up. When you hit a bump it opens up that chamber.
The air chamber on the back side of the cylinders expands and contracts whenever you hit a bump. Instead it has a breather valve that “automatically” adjusts the rebound so there is no adjustment necessary In comparison to the Shotgun Shock, this unit does not have a switch to adjust the rebound independently of the ride height. There are only 4 wires that come out of the unit that need to be attached to the switches and the bike to make this work. There are no external air lines at all as the compressor is mounted inside the shock body along with everything else. My first thought is this is a very nice 1-piece unit.
I ordered an SAS for a friend’s bike and am using the opportunity to install and review the unit for everyone here on the forums, as well as compare it to the Shotgun shock.
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