Well my cuzin got an idea to switch the tires so the vale stems were on the inside making it wider. He is about 226lbs and he jumped his blaster. THe gap was about 20 ft. When he landed the tie rod broke. Is this from the stress. Or from switching the tires?

 

stress, or a screwed up landing

Patrick

 

Im pretty sure it doesnt have anything to do with the fliiping of the rims.

 

the flipped rims will put more pressure on the a-arms, and I guess they could hurt the tie rods but I would think it would have bent the a-arms first. Unless ofcourse he had a rough landing and causing the wheels to jerk in a certain direction or something like that. If the tie rods completely broke (and not just bent) then they were prolly going to break sometime soon anyways. Most of the times, tie rods will bend front impacts to the front of the tire, like hitting a tree or big rock, rather than from just landing hard.

 

when he landed he landed on the right front and that is the one that broke so would that help

 

Yeah, thats prolly what did it. When I was on quads, I never had problems and I raced for over a year. Some of those races were in the Int. class so I have definitely put mine to the test and they didn't break.

Did you completely break them in half, or just bend them. If they are just bent, you can bend them back and they will hold up aight. If they keep bending afterwards though, then you should go ahead and replace them.


P.S. Me and YoDaddy are the same person.... I have different screen names on different computers.

 

it snapped completly and the tire went side ways and flipped the quad. I WISH I HAD MY CAM OUT[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Oh ok. Well it was probably already cracked then. I think you MIGHT need to buy a new one now [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]. I don't think they are to expensive.

 

my cuzin has a blaster he is cusoming so for now we took one off that.

 

all I can think of is tommy boy.. "Fat mannn on a little quuuuuaaaaaaadddd"

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-Nick