JA66

I bought some 6 paddle haulers from Bansheebeefm2m. Nice to deal with. Gave me a good deal. Took a while to ship, but no biggy. Would deal with again.

Dont mean to be grave diggin, but I was looking for 10x6 wheels and these came up. Still have em?

Probably because the rear grab bar looks funky.

Yes they do suck. Im not saying there are no forces, and I prefer to have my paddles aligned. But when my paddles are sitting on the ground, in between paddles, the tire is not sitting only on the space between the paddles, but also the 2 adjacent paddles. And thats on pavement, sand is a lot softer than pavement. You are never going to be pulling on one paddle on one tire and absolutely none on the other. Unless, like I said, you had very few paddles for the diameter of your tire. Right now I am running 10 paddle extremes on a 20" tire. The carcass of the tire hardly even touches pavement, so you are definitely not going to be pulling on one paddle at a time on those. But anyways, this is just nitpicking. I prefer to have my paddles aligned, it rides smoother on pavement and it looks better.

You are not going to have only one paddle in the sand unless you have like 4 paddles. If they are perfectly off, there might be one paddle in on one side, and 2 paddles slightly in on the other side. Now there was absolutely no science or experimentation in that previous statement, but my point being you arent going to be paddling on one side then the other. Maybe to a certain extent, but not just gripping on one side then the other. Also, you are not necessarily set up for life after you align those paddles. My dads z400 spins the rims in the paddles all the time. The majority of the time they are perfectly off. The only thing we have noticed is its annoying on pavement. They are sand geckos though.

I am planning on getting +2s and shocks since I go to the dunes and want to be wider there, then getting some 5" 4+1 front wheels to suck the front wheels back in for trail riding. That way you are only an inch wider per side and you get the positive effects of a longer arm. Then leave the back stock.

I'll start off. 300? Don't have any drag parts to trade. Nevermind, I see your price now. Unless you will take 300. How much to you estimate the shipping to be? I bet it will kill the deal.

Just finger tighten the ball joints until you are happy with how they are adjusted, then tighten to spec. If they are just finger tightened, they will still come back apart, and be close enough to make adjustments.

If you wait for them to get really sloppy they might fail. A heim side loaded like that cant have too much play before the ball can just fall out.

Wide rear with stock front? Gonna run wide offset wheels? I have offset wheels for the dunes right now (2+4) and I hate them if it is rough, beats the crap out of my arms with the horrible scrub radius. Looks sweet. I have been trying to convince my girlfriend she needs a quad. Don't think she could handle a banshee though.

Yeah cables are surprisingly easy to cut. I cut through an old cable bike lock with some really dull dikes. Took me less than a minute. It was a fairly small cable, but when you cut a few strands at a time, it doesn't matter how large the cable is. I can imagine how quick it would be with some good cutters.

My dad used to keep the bikes at his business by the main garage. People that drove by the business could see his shiny new Z400 sitting there. It got stolen at night with everything locked up, they peeled back the siding on the building. They took the Z400, and two drills. They had their sights set on that 4-wheeler, and decided to root through the two trucks sitting there while they were inside. Both trucks had the keys in them too. It would not have been a bad idea to have the 4-wheeler locked up in that garage. Luckily he had insurance on it. The crime rate here is not that high either. Now they are at home in the garage, but not locked up. We have an alarm system though. I'm going to be moving away from home soon, and I am going to leave it there until I get a garage.

That crack has been a long time coming. Looks like it had a fatigue crack going, and it finally got far enough that it failed.

haha, barely got me. I did notice that it slowed down but I didn't pay much attention to it because it always seems to slow down when its about to the good part...

You ride at Chadwick much?

Talked to Jeff at F.A.S.T. Racing, he had several new shafts and they all had small cracks, guess that just how they are. I shouda got one from him, he mods them for more throw and has a different spring for the indent. I'll try the spring for now.

Got the new shift shaft, it has a crack on it too! The guy at the dealership offered to get another one, but I suspect they are all like that. The hook is bent pretty tight. Has anybody noticed this before? I'll try to link a picture. I'm certainly not going to use the old one, cause I heard it crack, but I didn't notice if it was visible before I tried to bend it. The new one makes me nervous. has anyone had the hook break? Major damage if a piece got into the primary drive!!

When you turn out the air screw, you're giving the engine more air, so if it idles fastest at more than 2.5 turns out, the engine wants a leaner mixture (smaller pilot jet). Stock setting is 2 turns. Check out this page. http://www.duncanracing.com/techfaq/Tech_k...n-jetting.phtml

If I remember right, blaster pistons have 10 deg angle, banshee has 14 deg., so if you use blaster pistons on a long rod banshee you need domes made for that combo.

Thats what happened to me last weekend, stuck in 3rd, shifter felt funny. Took off clutch cover, hook on end of shaft had slipped off the shift star pins and jammed. Not so sure about the washer fix, there's not much clearance for the shaft to move side to side. The plastic spacer on the shaft keeps it from moving too far to the left. A boss cast into the clutch cover keeps it from moving to the right. The only clearance is the thickness of the gasket.(maybe 1/32"). That's not enough to cause the problem, the hook is about 3/32". The arm on the shaft must flex enough to let the hook slide off the pins. A friend with a history of breaking stuff was riding at the time, but he was wearin sneakers, not boots!! Anyways, heres what NOT to do: DON'T try to bend the arm or hook!!! I thought i'd open the hook up enough to get to the middle of the pin, instead of just barely catching the end of the pins. Just started to bend when, CRACK !, oh hell, guess I'll be ordering a new shaft tomorrow. Maybe the new shaft will catch the pins better, but I doubt it, sounds like this is a pretty common problem.

Alrighty, thanks!

Well I know they will fit, I was wondering if they were the same height, width, etc.

Ok, my friend crashed my Blaster (and got a concussion) and the handlebars got bent up really bad. I was wanting to put my banshee bars on the blaster and then get the banshee fancy new bars, so, are the banshee and blaster bars the same? (they're not at my house right now so i can't check, and i would like to get started on putting it back together)