impalapower
TY 4 Stroke God
Got just over 3000 miles and changed mine for the first time. I've smelled them a time or two.
I'm going tommorrow to pick up some polaris wheels, 500 miles on new slides and I have a little rail showing through after the muni ride :shock: Hopefully I'll be alright with the larger wheels and maybe pull the limiters up a little. Don't think those slides get quite as much lube with the 1.25" track as opposed to the 1".
impalapower
TY 4 Stroke God
Yikes! Did I just get lucky after getting 3000 miles on my faxes? I put on some graphite slippery slides my neighbor gave me. If they don't last, I'll get the wheels too.
We usually only replace them in the fall, 2000+ miles on each set until now. It's all in the setup.
impalapower
TY 4 Stroke God
So you've set your sled the way you like it, now it burns faxes out faster?
RX1Jim
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
I have had problems with excessive wear on the Yamaha rear suspensions. My SRX would wear new hyfax strips down half way to the wear limit line then stop. It did this even in deep fresh powder. I tried the Maxximum Performance wheels. I got 500 miles out of the first set then all of the bearings seized up. OK, called them up and they told me it was a bad batch of wheels. I sent them back and got a new set free, so far so good. I got 500 miles on the 2nd set and then the bearings began seizing again. Called them, emailed them to complain, never heard from them again. DO NOT BUY THE MAXXIMUM PERFORMANCE WHEELS. They are a good idea but are a very poor quality. I made some offset bushings for the stock wheels. I made enough form my SRX and RX1. Both sleds now have 5000 miles on the same sets of hyfax, problem solved. The kit sold by Pioneer is very similar to what I did, works great. The stock Yamaha wheels are 5 1/8" dia. wheels. You can replace these with 5 1/4" dia wheels and this will solve the hyfax problem.
impalapower
TY 4 Stroke God
And once you have the kit, you only need to change cartridge bearings.
170plus
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
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almost 8000 miles on my 03 sliders,never had a problem with all stock wheels,i do have my limiters pulled up a little so i think this helps but mostly the snow conditions,ive logged a lot of miles but i dont ride unless there is snow,144 ripsaw this year and ive ordered the "marginal snow wheel kit" from yamaha and 6 polaris wheels and the studs to put in the spaces where the window is closed on the track cause im thinking that the 1.25 track will be harder on sliders than the finger track was,a lot of guys around here run the hyfax sliders cause the guy that makes them lives 10 miles from me in presque isle maine and they take all their wheels off and put the hyfax sliders on which works well on a fully clipped track and descent snow conditions,get bad snow conditions or a window track and the hyfax and rubber from the track dont mix,they are designed for running against the metal clips not the rubber closed window,the studs i talk about are in hi-perf catalog on the same page as the hyfax sliders,hope this helps guys
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Ok, I'm confused. I picked up Polaris wheels today. I can't see how the bearings just fit in. I removed the clips and the Polaris bearings easy enough. But the yamaha wheels are completly different. Actually they are not even a normal bearing. There is two plastic spacers pressed in there together and a aluminum spacer that slides through them. Some help or direction would be great. Thanks
I just put mine on today, I replaced the plastic bushings in the polaris wheels with the plastice bushings from the Yamaha wheels, use the same aluminum bushing inside and they bolt right up and they look identical, no need to change the bearings at all, maybe you got the wrong wheels?
The Polaris wheels I got have regular bearings.
sledheadgeorge
TY 4 Stroke God
Thats the same experience that I have had with all the Yamahas I've had. heavy initial wear and then will stay at that wear mark for long time.greenmachine said:
ken_climb
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
Take all the wheels off! except the back ones of course ,add scratchers ,nice even wear and less weight.
