On all my bikes after each ride I give them a good cleaning then look them over to try and find any trail carnage from the ride and something I was finding after every ride on my RZR was the stock a-arm bushings had excessive play in them. I was having issues front and rear but the front seemed to be the worst, after each ride I would put the jack under the bike to take the weight off the suspension and grab each wheel one at a time with both hands to check for play in the suspension and after every ride the front a-arm bushing would need replaced. I would replace the bushing and grease them good (with grease squirting out making a mess everytime) after every good ride. After replacing these several times I set out looking for a good set of replacements and although I found several companies offering replacement bushings I went with the RacerTech bushing and sleeve setup not only because I knew RacerTech quality was top notch but also because I called and talked to Andy and he explained to me that their bushings were milled on the high end of Polaris spec so each bushing could be fitted to each individual arm. You might ask "why can they not all be the same?" well what he explained to me was the Polaris a-arms I.D. varied from arm to arm and bike to bike. With everything else I had seen on this bike this actually made sense so I ordered their complete kit and when it came in I took a few measurements of the I.D.'s of my a-arms to find each arm was slightly different and found when one bushing fit loosely in one arm it might fit really tight in another.
Installing these bushings was a lot more time consuming than installing the stock style loose bushings but with several rides and several hundred miles on the RacerTech setup my bike is just as tight as the day I installed their bushings. All I was looking for in these bushings was a set of bushings that would last longer but I gained a whole lot more, With the RacerTech bushings the bike actually handles better, is more controllable, and drives better.
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