honda rims/hubs on warrior?

[dirtrider73068]

I have this pondering question racking my brain for some time. I have a buddy that has a 99 honda 300 sporttraxx, he has a set of skat track? I think paddles. I have a 03 warrior, and wondered how to get the paddles to fit. One way would be to drill the honda rims to fit the yamaha bolt pattern, but drill just ever slightly wrong and your screwed. Second would be take the honda hubs, and install on warrior axle, if the honda and yammy axles are the same, that would seem easiest, third and last and hardest, would be dismount bls , and mount on my stock yammy rims, which I don't want to do, but if it works I would. We have a trip planned to little sahara, in wynoka, OK in the end of september, and I would liek to try a set of paddles to see what difference I would have out of my ride. Now I have a set of maxxis razr's and run about 2-3 lbs of air to be able to get bite, or float on the sand. Would I have to do anything to run the paddles? It has stock gearing as far as I know, it has good bottom end, most times, I take off in 2nd without a grunt. I just want to know if its worth the time to hunt up a used set of paddles, to take with me if I ride in the sand, be little sahara or the river.

 

[DeadLastRacing]

Diff bolt patterns, and sporttrax axle wouldn't fit.....but that seems like some much more work the to just take the tires to a tire shop for them to switch onto your rims? Local place here charges $10.

Sidewayz has a set of sand tires he wants to sell. PM him if you want to buy your own set. If you ride the dunes a lot then you want to invest in a set anyways.

 

[dirtrider73068]

So it would be just as easy to dismount and remount on my extra rims to try them out? Now will the warrior turn the paddles without problems? I have a fmf supertrapp, a K&N with outter sleeve, stock gearing as far as I know.

 

[yamarider]

Drilling the wheels to fit doesn't make sense to me, why drill holes in your buddy's rims just to see if you like the tires on the warrior? The splines on the hubs won't match up either.

Swapping the tires on the wheels would be your only good safe option if you just want to try them out, it's not that expensive to have tires changed at a shop. I don't know why you would really need to try them on the warrior to find out if they work, the 300 isn't so drastically different from a warrior that you can't base your judgement on how that works with paddles.

I never rode with paddles, we don't have much sand around here, but I don't see why a warrior couldn't turn paddles as good as anything else. If it runs in the sand ok with razrs, and your friend's 300 doesn't struggle with them, you shouldn't have any trouble with paddles and stock gearing. Just don't expect it to be fast, most sand machines are big bores or high strung 2 strokes for a reason, the sand has a lot of rolling resistance and it takes more power to move you than on a hard surface.

 

[dirtrider73068]

Thats what I thought too, He tried them in the mud adn he said they pulled him right through it no problems. I have seen blasters with paddles, and little kids with them on theres to get around the dunes, so with the great bottom end the warrior has I would think it would be any problem spinning paddles, I was told by a shop not to go over an 8 paddle, or what he called over paddle it, and would be fine.