I've read some bad things around here on the Durablue spacers .. at least I think that's what they were. A lot of extra work involved to get them to fit, and thread mismatches and such .. before you buy them I'd suggest doing a search on the forums ...

Though from your earlier post strokertwo, you seem to have settled on redrilling your rims, a very inexpensive method!! Good luck!

 

The inverted valve stem idea works pretty well if you have your heart set on this mod. However, by flipping your wheels you put an increased load on your front wheel bearings and your quad can sit lower in the front since the offset wheels increase the leverage on your springs. It is a cheap mod that will cost nothing or a couple bucks and if you like it, then you can save up and widen your front end correctly with new a-arms.

 

All ready have the +2 A-Arms w Elka's ZPS front shocks and I'm running 4+1 offset on the front but I dont what to load the tires up w/ice screws for the lake.So I have and xtra set of tires on reg 4 bolt pattern w/out the off set so I thought of useing those just flip around. again there will be no jumping just oval and long ice drags.

 

the spacers I had were made by highlifter. alum with studs
you bolted them to the hub and the wheels to the spacers
I have a pair forsale if anybody is interested in them 11/2 inch per side
and yes durablue spacers suck

 

Mucky I might be intrested in the spacers for the lake racing in the winter time do you have to use longer wheel studs?Will they work on the lt250r's?I'm not sure that the bolt pattern is the same as the z400's. Can you send me some pix's and how much you want for them?
Thanks

 

I dont have any pics of them but go here http://www.cyclestuffusa.com/highlif...elspacers.html
you can see what they look like, the ones I have are yellow
new they are around $100 I used them for around 6 months
$45 shipping included

 

Mucky' I'll take them I just need to confrim that they will fit on the 88 LT250r. The web site did not list the 250rs Is there any way you can confrim that they will fit?

Thanks

 

The easiest way I guess is to confirm the stud size .. bolt pattern's shouldn't matter, unless the spacers are the ring type that goes over all 4 studs at once. I'm more used to the kind that are sort of like lug extensions .. you screw them on over the existing studs, and they have studs sticking out the end .. thus giving you the spacer ..

 

If you don't have the extra thousand bucks for extended A-arms and axles, I'd say go with some quality hub spacers as well. I had them on my LT250R and no complaints here.

 

I was told that you can also buy longer studs for them so you can flip them and use washers to clear the valve stem. but the source that told me this is not all that reliable so who knows.