hyfax wear still

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deekersrx700

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I put the 4 polaris idler wheels on the front and the small wheel kit and my sliders are still almost worn down to the wear marks on the bend. I have my limiters with about 1.5 inches of thread above the nut. What am I doing wrong?
 

Are you running your track tension at Yamaha spec? If you are, it's probably too tight. I haven't set tension Yamaha's way for years. I run approx 1" WITHOUT weights on the track (136"). If it Rachets, I tighten it a half turn. Check your sliders with a 10mm wrench. 10mm is the wear limit in the manual, the line sometimes gets hard to distinguish(sp). Hopefully some of this helps.
 
I have the oversized wheels and drilled the sliders along with the suspension settings. My slider wore to the rail at the bend, melted the end cap right off, peeled off the slider, wore the rail and speared the track last spring. Just prior to that I was going over 180kms.

I replaced the skid with an RX, Viper shocks, advantage Ohlin extensions at the front, new 9818 track and I ordered SLP anti hyfax wear pads from Sudbury Cycle. I can only wait and see if the wear pads work. I am still running the oversized wheels.
 
I've got the track loose, oh ya my sliders are drilled as well, hopefully they have worn as much as they will so I don't have to replace them, geeze I only have like 300kms on them.
 
you guys still have to ride in some snow................................

running on ice or low snow will eat em up no matter what.
 
I had the same set up as you last year deeker and I put 2200 miles on and the hyfax still looked almost new. Not sure what's going on, maybe mrviper's right. Are you still running the stock spacer on the lower control rod? If not, change it to 2.5mm instead of the 5mm spacer. Maybe that's the difference.

Jon
 
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