I have 2" bracket lift on order, intending for the rear only. That's because my Elka shocks are preloaded as far as the nut allows and my rear lower A arms are nearly level as it sits on the flat. Granted I have a fuel pack at the front of the box and about 80 pounds of recovery and emergency gear but I need more rear ground clearance and I don't want to simply add more preload the way a spring spacer lift would.
Considering Elka had a good four inches of thread to work with to establish working range, I have to think it's sloppy engineering to have their working preload so close to one end as to run out of spring adjustment range. Maybe they just adapted an existing shock body from their warehouse to fit on the CF Moto and be damned where the spring collar ends up. Regardless it's pretty sloppy and inconsiderate engineering what with the price they want for their product.
I'm sure someone will offer that I should have just gotten a stronger rear spring but that's not the problem, I supplied Elka with my weight specs when I ordered the shocks and these are the springs they chose for me. The springs are strong enough and don't approach he limits of the shocks operating range by the evidence of the dust ring on the rams. There's no way I should run out of preload adjustment range and be at the end when there's four inches of threaded shock body above the collar, unused. I did notice at the time of install that the eye to eye length of the rear Elka shocks was about 1/4" shorter than the stock shocks.
Sloppy engineering, Elka.
I'm going to try a bracket lift and back off the preload and see if I get a good result that way. The kit was only $30.00 USD or so. Cheap enough.
I might redrill the brackets to a shorter lift too depending on the results. I don't want a bunch of lift, just get the rear end a bit further away from the rocks and get operating range back on my preload collars.