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Posted by pcarrell
 - August 07, 2015, 09:43:35 AM

Ron Ayers looks like they have your stock spring.  http://www.ronayersmotorcycles.com/fiche_section_detail.asp?section=395051&category=Motorcycles&make=KAWASAKI&year=2001&fveh=9081

Posted by kfoster
 - August 06, 2015, 22:50:59 PM

The shock is pretty much a short version of the KLR shock. There are a couple of places that will sell you a different KLR rear spring. The hard part is disassembling the KLR shock and installing the spring. You need to compress the spring to do the job. The KLR springs run about a hundred bucks. I did this with my KLR 650 with good results.

This is where I got my KLR spring.

http://www.topgunmotorcycles.com/KLR_springs/klrsprings.html

You would likely need to shorten the spring to get it to work. It would not hurt to call these guys to see if they can source a spring of the correct length for the Drifter application.

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - August 06, 2015, 15:32:24 PM

  Asked around about swaping the spring out and was told by a few shops it was not a doable thing for the cost involved and to just buy a new shock, so I sucked it up and bought a progressive mono shock for the Drifter, called then and talked to a tech and explained my size and weight, and he told me how to set the sag and were I should actually start the process from and it has worked really well.

Posted by chief
 - August 06, 2015, 13:55:14 PM

sounds like the shock needs to be replaced.

Posted by Brilamb2
 - August 05, 2015, 21:26:13 PM

Anybody have a rear spring that is possibly still "somewhat" firm? While doing more tinkering with the 800 I recently acwuired, the stock shock is still kinda firm, but the rear spring is so soft it almost bottoms out with juts me on it.  We en me and the old lady get on its fully compressed and is already on pre load 7

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