So you have to spend a couple hundred on an axle, I bent the axle on my KFX-700 just a few months back and guess what, i bought another one and i aint bitchin, PAY to PLAY is the name of the game. And as for welding a frame, gussets are 75 cents a piece and any kid over the age of 14 that cant run a MIG welder needs help. I was welding at age 8 with an old miller ARC welder. Its not hard. Ive gusseted many atv frames and ive cut a lot of things out of frames to save weight. Those problems are NOT major. MAJOR is not a term in ATVing...you win some you lose some....you break things and you make things better.
-hoover
-hoover