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10-29-2015, 09:22 AM | #1 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
With winter comming I will be ordering a set of http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006YRWKV0/...I21YS2Z925TL68 But I was thinking that tracks might be fun too. |
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10-29-2015, 11:13 AM | #2 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Northern VA
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
3.8 tires? Those wheels require a 17mm hex, as opposed to the standard 12mm hex the yeti utilizes.
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10-29-2015, 11:22 AM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
yep, got these on order too, Amazon.com: Hot Racing SLF117X06 Light Weight Splined 17mm Hubs: Toys & Games |
10-29-2015, 11:37 AM | #4 | |
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10-29-2015, 11:46 AM | #5 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
I can't see why they wouldn't be??? maybe they aren't.
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10-29-2015, 12:00 PM | #6 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Duluth
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
You will probably want to compensate for the yeti wheel offset difference as well. I don't recall if you were planning on buying something like the SSD wide rear axle to square everything up.
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10-29-2015, 12:08 PM | #7 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
I'm getting the Vanquish rear with their lockouts.
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10-29-2015, 12:10 PM | #8 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
These wheels are a 1/2" offset, do you think that I will need more?
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10-29-2015, 01:55 PM | #9 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Duluth
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
Not sure if 1/2" is enough or not, I don't know how wide the wheels are. But my point was that without a wide rear axle, the rear would be about an inch narrower than the front if you run the same wheels front and back on a yeti. The stock yeti makes up for that difference by using the different SLW hubs to adjust the wheels offset. I guess you never made it clear if you wanted to run them on the rear only or if on all 4 corners. |
10-29-2015, 02:53 PM | #10 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
all 4 and they certainly do not need to be in line. I did not realize the different wheels front vs back. Guess I won't be able to do a 4 wheel rotate to keeps the tread even....bummer
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10-29-2015, 03:33 PM | #11 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
Not different sized wheels, different hub sizes. I remember hearing of clearance issues with running wheels that big... But offset makes a difference as well. I remember seeing a thread about it. |
10-29-2015, 04:45 PM | #12 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
well is a 3.8 a bit to big? what is the standard paddle? a 2.2? it just looks so small and I would think the Yeti would get high centered in the soft snow. I could see a 2.2 in the sand but ???? soft snow???
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10-29-2015, 07:50 PM | #13 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Duluth
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
the 3.8s would be the most appropriate diameter, its the offset that needs to be worried about, it is probably possible for you to run reasonalbly wide 17mm hex adapters that would make em work just fine, but i would still suggest going with the wide SSD axle so that your yeti would be set up ready for equal offsets front and rear.
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10-29-2015, 08:32 PM | #14 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
Ok so if I am reading this right the stock Yeti wheels are 2 different offsets, front vs rear. and the VP axle is stock width. If I was to run other wheels that had an equal offset ,Front vs rear they wouldn't run in line with each other. BUT if I ran the SSD wide the stock wheels would not run in line but the aftermarket ones would?
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10-29-2015, 08:39 PM | #15 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Winter Park Colorado, 8000Ft Elevation
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
Okay after some research it looks like the SSD is a simple swap of the two shafts and lockouts? right? At $39 this looks like another addition to the tool box for when I want to run paddles.
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10-29-2015, 09:12 PM | #16 |
Newbie Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Bacchus Marsh, Australia
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti?
big heavy wheels and tyres with a lot of offset will eat bearings
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10-30-2015, 07:34 AM | #17 | |
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| Re: Anyone ever tried snow/sand tracks on their Yeti? Quote:
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