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Im no engineer or expert.

But guys who know will tell you installing longer shocks to increase rear travel is also a bad idea.

It will change the rake of the forks and this will adversly effect steering and handling.

Also, the 360 is susceptible to top end oiling issues. They don't like sitting at weird angles. Honda recommended changing the original oil pickup w the later model style pickup employed on the CJ360.

I don't know that installing longer rear shocks would effect engine oiling...however, still recommended by Honda to change it out.
 
Your 360 looks good thus far. HERE is a topic I started a little while back about shock lengths on a 360. Read it carefully, there is some really good information in there. In the end I had a set of custom shocks made up by Hagon that would take into account the travel lost by installing a rear loop (like the one you have).
 
A little bit closer, some will say rough around the edges, then I will say yes.
 

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That fender is toast first time you hit a pebble. Heck that might actually rub if you just sat on the bike. You need to measure the actual amount of travel you have to full bump. Remove one of your shocks and then compress the remaining one with a ratchet strap through the rear wheel and over the frame rail. You will quickly see the mistake you're making.
 
As for my rear loop and the distance between the tire, I can heighten my stock shocks still around 1 cm. Do you think this will be enough?, thx for the advice to strap them down, certainly going to try that.

And yes is is a stock tire, going to change them probably with a more offroady one.
 
1cm isn't going to make a difference. You'll get a proper idea for it when you ratchet strap the loop and wheel.

I made the same mistake as you. Untold numbers of people have made the same mistake, but it's a learning curve fam.

What's it like when you sit on the bike as it is right now? The stock shocks on my 360 were super spongey, and if yours are the same that definitely isn't going to help your cause.
 
Have you ever ridden a motorcycle before? If the answer is no as I suspect it is, I then have to ask what makes you think you're qualified to be modifying one? This is a very real and very quick way to get yourself killed if you don't know what you're doing (and a lot of times even if you do know what you're doing)
 
coyote13 said:
Have you ever ridden a motorcycle before? If the answer is no as I suspect it is, I then have to ask what makes you think you're qualified to be modifying one? This is a very real and very quick way to get yourself killed if you don't know what you're doing (and a lot of times even if you do know what you're doing)

KILLED? Motorcycles are nothing more than toys, silly. Anyone w a grinder is completely capable of doing whatever they want.
No consequences, ever. ::)
 
As a response to the previous question, I have ridden motorcycles but I'm far from an experienced driver. I'm glad I joined the forum as I genuinely like to play around and modify the bike but I don't know much about it. Probably the thing I'm going to do is making the rear loop curved upwards so I will gain 3 to 4 cm's of extra space between frame and tire.
 
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