i have a 98ish venture with damadge to the front suspension on one side. question is i have four control arms and two trailing arms from a viper. will all the parts swap over ?? i know i will need to do both sides and also find viper knucles for the venture but will control arms and trailing arms from the viper bolt up ???? i bought these viper parts off here for my 04 as spares.
just a quick search on a yamaha parts sight shows all the vipers cotrol arms starting with 8ek , the ventures start with 8cr , vipers end 00-00 , ventures end 02-00 , middle part of the part number 2394e /2384f is the same for both. just trying to reserrect one from the grave with parts i got laying around.
TIA
just a quick search on a yamaha parts sight shows all the vipers cotrol arms starting with 8ek , the ventures start with 8cr , vipers end 00-00 , ventures end 02-00 , middle part of the part number 2394e /2384f is the same for both. just trying to reserrect one from the grave with parts i got laying around.
TIA
They will work, but you might have to use the hiem joints from your venture on the ends of the control arms where they bolt onto your bulkhead. I had to use my srx ones when I put viper control arms on, the viper hiem joints were bigger in size. If I were you I would just loosen the lock nuts on those hiem joints, unscrew your venture ones and screw the viper ones on. That way you don't have to try to unbolt them from your bulkhead which is kind of a pain.
Backwoods M Max
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I put viper trailing arms on my mountain max and they bolted right on. Never touched the radius rods at all other than new bushings and grease. The only problem I ran into on a mountain max was the Steering wouldn't go hard over with the arms lined up at the punch marks they would hit the bump stops before the steering post got to the stop. I cut the stop off the steering arm so the go hard over. Only thing you have to watch for is you can't grab a ski and drag the front end around if your really stuck. It puts a lot of stress back through the steering linkage.
Excellent, exactly the info I was looking for. Thanks
The rods will not work, it will make your sled narrow. vipers use longer heim joints that are wider on rods that are the length of srx front end. the heims wont work inside, the your heims will thread into them but will make your rods short by almost an inch. also, the upper rod is bent at the end to only work with heim mounted outward. Trailing arms will go right on.
Backwoods M Max
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There may be enough adjustability on a wide front end to clock the steering arms one position outboard and get full throw while still leaving the bump stops on the steering arms, but on a narrow stance mtn sled I would have unthreaded the tie rods and had them sticking out into space to be clipped by every tree I had to squeeze between in the woods.
Im trying to understand what you are saying here Betheviper, I put viper rods on my srx and they did not narrow my stance. I was able to use my srx steering rods and was able to hook up my stabilizer bar after installing them. One thing I forgot to mention was that I had to cut the upper rod bushings a bit narrower where they mount in the trailing arms, but everything else worked. They are on my sled right now.
Edit: forgot that the OP was going to use the viper trialing arms too, no need to cut the bushings narrower like for my srx trailing arms
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if you managed to install viper rods in your sx/srx chassis, you have just widened your sled, 1/2in. Srx and sx rods are 1/4 in shorter than vipers. Vipers make up the extra in having a wider spacing in the center where they bolt. as for the viper trailing arms bolting on different, there is now spacing issue, they are the same.