I have some 25 x 12.5-12 rear tires and some 25 x 9.5-12 frt tires I am wanting to put on a 350 ES Rancher 4x4. Will these tires fit on the stock wheels?

I tried pulling the wheel and tires off a 350 big bear and putting them on the honda, but one of the rear tires rubs the muffler. So, I am hoping I can simply remove the tires and put them on the stock wheels.

If not, is there a way to make the tire clear the muffler? Maybe a wheel spacer or something?

Please help! I am totally lost with this!

 

you can buy a wheel spacer but then your tires in the rear are going to stick out if you do that it works but i just bought some new tires for my honda rancher 25-10-12 and 25-9-12 and they fit just right and looks amazing in my opinion here is a photo of what my tires are i got them on ebay they are nice and i pulled a 2300 pound tree no problem tires grabbed tight to the ground and pulled it out with little problem also i took it mudding and i could go a lot farther then before and i out did the 2 500 formans in the picture
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also if you do this you loose strength on the weight you can put on the original lug nuts cus your stretching the weight distribution to the out side how ever if you don't do a lot of pulling or a lot of towing and its a toy then i would say get the spacers but if you do work with it i would get different tires after 25s you get to tall and loose torque if you go to wide and you pull a lot your talking now about over stressing your diff in the back just food for thought

 

About the most work it will do is hauling a deer out of the woods and maybe a load of firewood across the yard. We are looking at spacers now...anything in particular I need to be looking for? Are the cheaper ones on Ebay any good?

 

ok well in my opion idk if you have seen mine but i got a 420 rancher and i got 25 /10 /12 on the back and i got 25/ 8 /12 on the front and its made a huge diffrence but if you are gona do one with out looking dumb in my oppion do all 4 so it looks good and your not out riding with your friends and there like wtf cus i would but do all 4 and i would say if your gona buy them you can get them from ebay but check out amazon to they keep stuff real cheap thats were i got my winch but hear is what 25s look like on my rancher 420 i would buy them from eather denis kirk or somthing reliable that has a warnenty

 

We went with 1 1/2 inch in rear and 1 inch on front and it took care of all the rubbing issues. We bought them from highlifter since they are local

 

Why would a 350 have trouble turning 25" tires at all. A 300 Suzuki KQ 4x4 comes stock with 25" tires,350 Grizzly/Bruins 4x4 without a low range also does,my old 350 Yamaha also came with 25" tires.
Kawasaki Prairie 360 4x4 also has 25" tires.

I always thought it was odd Honda uses smaller 24" tires on there 350 and 420 Ranchers even there older 350 Foremans 4x4s from the 90s had 25" tires stock.

I ride with a friend that has 26" six ply "Swamp Witches" on his 420 Rancher.

 

well the reason that honda uses 24s on there rancher is that they were going for torque and with 24s the honda rancher in 1st gear is very seldomly out torqued in the 400 class and a honda 420 will turn 29s but idk cus i dont use anything else but honda's im not saying that it wouldn't but idk if they would have trouble turning them cus i dont know the atv i know a scrambler 400 will dust my atv all day but pulling hes out matched 4 to 1 poundage wise so i just don't know the atv your referring to so i cant judge it