Arrived and installed. Took a little less than an hour. It’s was pretty easy.
Some tips. Break all the bolts loose with the bike sitting on the ground before jacking it up. I jacked the bike up from the rider’s foot peg mount using an automotive jack and the kickstand as a pivot point. I realize that’s probably sketchy to a lot of folks but if it fell, it affects only ME. Since it’s my bike. I use a rubber coated puck with a cleat that does a good job of locking in behind the foot peg mount. Jack the bike up with the rear wheel touching just enough to unweight the shock.
Remove the rear reservoir and let it hang. You get more room to fish out the top shock bolt.
Remove the slip on exhaust and back out the rear catalytic converter mounted. It’s an Allen head just ahead of the rear shock lower bolt. The bolt cannot be extracted because it hits the cat. “Nudging” the catalyst will allow you to get the bolt out. Maybe you will get lucky with the bolt. I was nit. After you get both bolts out jack the bike up a little more and pull the rear shock out from the rear of the bike. New shock goes in same way. I installed my shock with the pressure line on the chain side. I did it back ways and with the line exiting on the rear brake side I felt the excess line may contact things like the tire or rub the swing arm.
When reinstalling the bottom bolt, I snaked it through the opposite way to I didn’t have to mess with the catalyst agains.
It went together logically. My z900 rear shock took a few hours. This was much easier. It’s starting to sleet outside so I only rode it around my block to make sure nothing was contacting anything. All good!


