about a month ago I had the idea that I could flip my front wheels so that the valve stem was to the inside and the tread rotated the same. I wanted to do this to increase stability, but my main reason was that my rims were pretty bashed up on the valve stem side, what is normally the inside looked new.

anyway I tried the flip and found that the valve stem was hitting the brake caliper and abondoned the idea.

this monday I had the day off and decided I would revist this idea. with the valve caps removed I was able to see how the valve stems were touching the caliper when the wheel was spinning. I jacked up the frontblocked the rear wheels and began observing the clearance by spinning the front wheel free hand.

I only had to remove about 1000th of an inch to make this work on my quad. your machine may be different. I bought my quad used so I am not sure what may be different from the factory. I then used a drimel and a grinding bit to carefully remove alittle bit of metal from the caliper. be prepared to bolt and unbolt the rim acouple times. I only wanted to remove the amount of metal neccasary to get the valve stems to clear. I suppose you could remove more metal the first time and be ok but I wanted the bare minimui removed.

anyway this worked! It increased my quads stability by widening the front track. and its bassically the same as using a rim with 2-- back spacing on the front. At any rate I figured this was a nice free mod and is a modification of an old three wheelr tirck. Some of you may have been aware of this some may not have. I wanted to try and share the wealth and return a fraction of the help you guys give me with your quads.

as always any mods you do to your quad are at you discrecion, I am not responsible to any injury to said quad or person or persons from performing this mod.

 

you could have also just drilled a hole on the other side,,,,,and installed a new valve stem

then just install a valve stem backwards in the old hole

what ever works i guess

 

I didn;t know you could install a valve stem backwards. learn something new everyday. the other thought was to weld up the original hole and drill a new one, but I don't have a welder and didn't want to take the rims somewhere.

 

would it be possible to use a brazing rod to seal the hole shut? i have a torch and so all i would need is a brazing rod.

 

i dont think the brazing rod would work

 

mudmaster250, I don;t know much about brazing rods.

personally to me its not a big deal to have the valve stems on the inside. it looks cleaner and the amount of material you only have to remove a tiny bit of material from is the caliper. you can easily flip them back to stock. modifying the rim is a larger risk.

I used a drimel , but you could remove the amount of needed material in 5 minutes of sanding or with a file. trust me take a look its a real tiny bit. unbolting some rims and flippping them is alot easier then trying to fix a rim that was messed up welding.

 

i flipped mine around today and atleast 1/4th of an inch hits... i was pissed haha.

 

Were you able to use the same lug nuts? Did they ever come loose?

 

As if the front of a scrambler isn't wide enough already?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

 

Great thought. I may need to try it. Great work conig