4th wheel kit or not.

[viper strike]

If you don't have oversized wheels, you can completely remove the block's and shaft for even more transfer.

 

[drumz11]

I bought the 4th wheel kit and have a hard time getting the track alignment right with it. I've thought about making up an axle to use the new wheels instead if the the tri-hub. I have ro admit that i like the look of no outer wheels and I don't trust the bearings in the tri-hub.

Here is my take on the 4 wheel kits. I like to add the cheap outer 2 wheel kit while new keeping the tri-hub. Reason 1 being for safety in case an inner bearing happened to go out, 2 being that I think it takes some load off the the 2 bearings with 4 vs 2. I don't subscribe to the "sky is falling" and flirting with death by running a stock tri-hub for a season or two. I've done this on a couple sleds. At 2500-3000 miles I yank the tri-hubs figuring I got my money out of them of and bearings are most likely due. From there, add a complete 4 wheel kit if inclined to do so or even take the cheap route by keeping the stock axle after removing the tri-hub off it and pick up 2 of the same wheels that are used in the add on 4th wheel kits, while changing the bearings on the 2 older added wheels and put it back together. It's then all new for super cheap $$. Only extra thing needed is a couple of aluminum spacers on the axle to create the space between the 2 wheels that replaced the replaced the tri-hub. I've done the latter on two sleds in this chassis. The tri-hub bearings were just starting to make a little noise and getting dry at replacement time but not close to failing after close to 3k miles. The aftermarket 4 wheel tri-hub delete kits contain bigger bearings and sometimes bigger wheels and axle, but the budget route, which I did from most of the parts already on the bench, doesn't bother me at all and have held up fine with a ridiculously small investment. I wasn't trying to be too cheap but I knew it would all hold up fine and we will be at about 6k miles on each sled before I've had more than $50 in the rear wheels/ bearings and axle. Nothing wrong with going aftermarket 4 wheel from the get go, but I just don't see it as a must. I've used J&T 4 wheel kits on a couple of other sleds and will say they are top notch kits for anyone considering that route. I don't know what he uses for bearings but on my old Firecat chassis sled, I ran his kit and after a couple seasons all the bearings were toast in the skid except his axle kit and wheels which moved like butter like they were still new.

 

[Allan]

Here is my take on the 4 wheel kits. I like to add the cheap outer 2 wheel kit while new keeping the tri-hub. Reason 1 being for safety in case an inner bearing happened to go out, 2 being that I think it takes some load off the the 2 bearings with 4 vs 2. I don't subscribe to the "sky is falling" and flirting with death by running a stock tri-hub for a season or two. I've done this on a couple sleds. At 2500-3000 miles I yank the tri-hubs figuring I got my money out of them of and bearings are most likely due. From there, add a complete 4 wheel kit if inclined to do so or even take the cheap route by keeping the stock axle after removing the tri-hub off it and pick up 2 of the same wheels that are used in the add on 4th wheel kits, while changing the bearings on the 2 older added wheels and put it back together. It's then all new for super cheap $$. Only extra thing needed is a couple of aluminum spacers on the axle to create the space between the 2 wheels that replaced the replaced the tri-hub. I've done the latter on two sleds in this chassis. The tri-hub bearings were just starting to make a little noise and getting dry at replacement time but not close to failing after close to 3k miles. The aftermarket 4 wheel tri-hub delete kits contain bigger bearings and sometimes bigger wheels and axle, but the budget route, which I did from most of the parts already on the bench, doesn't bother me at all and have held up fine with a ridiculously small investment. I wasn't trying to be too cheap but I knew it would all hold up fine and we will be at about 6k miles on each sled before I've had more than $50 in the rear wheels/ bearings and axle. Nothing wrong with going aftermarket 4 wheel from the get go, but I just don't see it as a must. I've used J&T 4 wheel kits on a couple of other sleds and will say they are top notch kits for anyone considering that route. I don't know what he uses for bearings but on my old Firecat chassis sled, I ran his kit and after a couple seasons all the bearings were toast in the skid except his axle kit and wheels which moved like butter like they were still new.

So you just got 2 wheel same as the Yamaha 4t wheel kit and took the tri hub out and put the 2 wheel in on same axel. So then you got 2 spacers to keep the wheels in place. These spacers are on the out side toward the rail and adjuster? Was think of doing this but did not know if it would work or not.

 

[yeeha]

would also like to know the size of the spacers