Wheel Spacers?

[ltracer250r]

I was wondering if any of you guys have tried those wheel spacers that screw onto your studs and how good they are. IF you dont know what im talking about look on ebay there is a crap load. Anyone tried them?

[nickxc]

I have a banshee with a set on it in my garrage. They are ok. I personnally would just order my rims with the offset I wanted rather than gettin my width out of wheel spacers, I dont particularly like the looks of em and you should also put on longer tie rods. some people just adjust the stock ones all the way out but then you dont have much threads holding it in there and I have heard of them breaking or comming out and people wrecking so make sure you buy the tie rods if you do it. but look at this pic of my banshee you can see how the rims are offset so the deap side of the rim is out and it gives it a nice look and lots more width... I really like this way much better than spacers for gaining width on a quad...




you can see it in this pic too



you can compare it to the stock offset front rim on the banshee right next to mine in this pic. mine is the first one

[nickxc]

actually the banshee in the middle is the one with the wheel spacers on it. I think we have exactly the same width front ends on our banshees but his has stock offset wheels and wheel spacers and mine has the wide offset and no wheel spacers. notice how you can kinda see black in his hub area. that is the wheelspacer. you can see it pretty well in reality. mine is just hub right there. and you also add weight by adding spacers where as you loose weight by adding the lighter wheels and making them the offset that you want.

hope I have helped you...

[sparkzilla]

I run the regular durablue spacers on the right side of my zilla, and have had no problems. I personally am not too sure of the ones you are talking about. I have seen em but I don't know how strong they would be. Personally I think spacers are bad unless your quad never leaves the ground.

[Banshee]

I have heard but never used durablue have issues of breaking. In Rockymountain they have a nice set from G-Force that are billet.

[ltracer250r]

I was just lookin for a temporary set, i will probably just have them on there for a while until i get a exteneded axle. Yah those ones on ebay im not too sure of they dont look like the strongest in the world.

[bansheeracer18]

get the billet ones ther only like a honderd bucks kinny has um

[lannyLT250R]

I've heard of them breaking other things, hubs and axles b/c of the extra width puts more pressure on them, but i don't think you'd hafta worry about it unless your doing some major jumping.

[nickxc]

personally I wouldnt waist the money on them. just get the extended axle if you wanted them for the back, Id save the cash myself and put it in another place... Its all your call

[370banshee]

wheel spacers or rev. offset whels are bad on teh front. been known to trash spindles, wheel bearings and othe front end parts also ball joints just buy the right stuff. woudl youi rather spend your money on broken stock parts or save a littel bit and get nice aftermarket stuff you don;t need to worry about breaking