BenBB

Yes it's the same hub & rotor, and the calipers on the YFZ are 2-piston instead of 1. Get 'em.

I have a pair here.

Yes the lower a-arm balljoints can be replaced on stock YFZ450 a-arms, so you can take 'em out and powdercoat the arms (the balljoints are held in place with a snap ring). The uppers aren't replacable, but they are aluminum so you could polish 'em...

Same here Thought I broke it

Short story long, I got these last year from broke (thanks buddy) after I busted the stock ones on my '96, recently took them off and was gonna use them on my son's '01 (hence the blue Krylon-I don't powdercoat 'em because it'll get thrashed tapping on the balljoint mounts during disassembly anyway) but now I'm gonna go with YFZ450 spindles on his too. So $25 each shipped or the pair for $40 shipped. Good shape, no probs; threads ok, shafts ok, everything looks cool. Any questions lemme know...

:beer: Excel is cake you'll have no probs...databases on the other hand SUCK ::

I haven't even looked at Raptor spindles, I wonder if they are the same...

That's what I do at the dunes & races; heavy cable and padlock through 2 or more quads/trailers/trucks/large objects. Although I wish mine was plastic coated like the Kryptonites, gotta be kinda careful on the paint/powder...

I use a 20' steel choker I got from work; 3/8" braided steel with an eyelet on each end (somebody kinked it lifting something wrong with the crane; no good for liftin' but great for securing things) and a big-ass padlock; through the frames of both Banshees and the Blaster. Along with a small chain & padlock on the garage door, and my Chevy parked in front of it heh. Since I got broken in to a month ago or so :verymad: (fuckers didn't get in the garage luckily), with the insurance settlement I got myself a nice new Mossberg Cruiser 500 (aka "tha bitch" ), solid metal-skinned doors front & rear with new deadbolts (they got in through the doggie door, which is now gone), new front & back porch light fixtures, three outside motion-detector lights, and Kensington locks on the new laptops that go through a couple holes I bored in the wall. I'd sure love it if they came back when I was home...NM just changed the laws so if the motherfucker is in the house I can legally fill him with 8-shot

DDQ were you running stock offset rims? Like 3+2 I think is what they are...which is what we've got but I'm hoping to go to 4+1 eventually. And I'm tryin' to find another pair of YFZ spindles now, think I'll go with shocks for those on both Banshees...

I'd double check the stator with an ohmmeter just in case, even new ones can fail. Same goes for plugs...

EDIT: It's the INSIDE a-arm that rises when you turn to full lock: turn the bars left and the LH a-arm rises slightly, turn right and the RH arm raises; not such a bad thing perhaps, not sure...

That's what I'm thinkin'.

Ahhh ok I get it, thanks boonman. Sorta. From what I remember of watchin' the tranny shift, other than wondering how anyone would come up with the whole damn thing (somebody alot smarter than I), it's ALMOST simultaneous that the currently selected gear is disengaged and then the next selected gear is engaged, but not quite, unless it's overridden. It makes enough sense to avoid in my application haha!

Hey Cole I took a VB class last year, I looked and I didn't keep any of my links tho...I know there's a shitload of help out there online though. Here's a couple I found on a quick search: MSDN has lotsa stuff if ya got hours to sift thru it: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/default.aspx There's always Wikipedia but ya kinda take your chances there; before I left AIU had a policy of not accepting wiki refs because of questionable content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic I vaguely remember using this site for snippets of code: http://www.vbcode.com/ Another one that might be worth scoping out, looks like lotsa articles: http://vbwire.com/ If you get stumped let us know, someone here oughta be able to help (I'll try but I'm sure someone else knows that shit off the top of their head heh). Good luck.

Yes sticky this one!! BTW I took some measurements this weekend with YFZ450 spindles and Banshee spindles here.

Now Brandon's '01 with Banshee spindles closer, suspension extended (after which I decided to rig up the tape because I couldn't hold the tape, the cam, and lift the suspension up): Closeup of Brandon's at full extension (hub center at 13"): Wide shot of Brandon's with the suspension compressed fully: And finally a closeup at full compression (tape reads 20" at the hub center, so a potential 7" of travel): Now here's a wide shot of mine at full compression (tape reads around the same 20", just a hair more maybe 20.5"): And finally a closeup of mine at full compression: Going back to the fifth pic of mine at full compression, the tape reads around 10" (maybe 9.5") at full extension, so there's a potential for 10"+ of wheel travel there...BUT I haven't got shocks for either one yet so I have not idea how they will work. I still lack a little work before I can properly measure full compression or bump, namely getting my spindle back on the LH side and Brandon's RH lower a-arm mounted (need another Dremel to hog out two of the little grease seal things), following this "custom shock" measurement page I got from Works: Anyway another thing I noticed about the two setups is that as you cycle the suspension upwards, Brandon's with the Banshee spindles toes in steadily from full extension to full bump, I shoulda tried to measure it but didn't think about it. Mine on the other hand with YFZ450 spindles doesn't toe in at all (or much visibly) until the top third or so of the travel. Also, at full extension I can move Brandon's bars left and right and at full extension the arms don't rise or fall...but on mine at full extension the outer a-arm (the RH arm if you turn the bars Left) rises 3/4" at full steering lock. Strange :shrug: One more thing, I measured from shock mounting bolt eye to eye at full extension on both of 'em, and here's what I got: Brandon's with Banshee spindles 16-3/8" Mine with YFZ450 spindles 17-3/8" without the bars turned, 16-5/8" on the outside arm when turned Anybody that can shed some light here? I'm gonna get to work modelling the YFZ450 spindle in 3D CAD for the front frame reconstruction thread, thought I'd show ya's what I found so far...

A big thanks to Mullet Man for the huge thread & how-to on doing YFZ450 a-arms (IS IT PINNED YET?!). I'm doing both my son's '01 and my own '96, last year I broke both OEM Banshee spindles and thought I'd upgrade to the YFZ450's cast aluminum units with a pressed-in steel shaft...hopefully along with 4+1 offset rims as well to reduce spindle fatigue/stress (thanks camatv for the tip). Thing is, the angles are different where the upper a-arm balljoints meet the spindle, and I finally got around to doing the measurements (broke my Dremel, house got broke in and all my computers & guns stolen, blah blah blah, cry me a river heh). Anyway check this out, the travel & extended length is much different between spindles... I know these aren't super accurate but you can get the jist of it, I used a tape measure held down with a couple 2x4's at ground level, and threw it up over the garage door opener rail since I don't have three hands. I also got both quads as close as I could to the same height (for reference both are wearing 21" Holeshot HD's on back with stock swingarms and stock rear shocks), by measuring from ground level to the center of the lower bumper mount bolt. Here's mine: And Brandon's: Here's a wide shot (disregard the tape measure numbers because I'm not level with it) of the tape and both suspensions extended: And a closer shot at the right angle of both suspensions extended:

Ok here's some pics... Gears to backcut (#6, 20, 21, 22 below): B370's (Walter) gears: Crappy pic of my gears (incidentally RZ350 gearset): Pic of the die grinder and one of my gears with 2 of the three dogs cut (which I found mildly amusing heh, tha peace symbol and all): I clutch most of the time...well sometimes heh. The combination of the backcut gears, modded shift star (rounded off points done by boonman), RZ shift drum and forks seems to shift smoother and lessens missed shifts and false neutrals. I still do that on occasion but it's more a function of being exhausted on the last lap of a desert race and not shifting fully (operator error heh). Never had any problems and I have put alot of hard miles on this tranny; 7 races and 112 hours give or take.

Awesome find Twister, thank you!!! I've been lookin' for those two books forever it seems Makin' time to read them is another story heh...

Oh damn that's gonna be some serious stopping power lol! My daughter's '03 Blasty with discs up front (factory) stops on a dime, with dual-piston calipers it would be on the thin side of a dime haha! One thing I forgot to mention; be careful with the caliper mounting bolts-they correlate to the spindle you're using. You can use YFZ450 caliper mounting bolts in a YFZ450 spindle (longer bolts, cast aluminum spindle) but you need to use Banshee caliper mounting bolts in a Banshee spindle (the bolts are shorter for the cast steel spindle). If you use the longer YFZ450 bolts on a Banshee spindle they may extend through the caliper backing plate and gouge/drag into the rotor...

I can post pics tomorrow of Walt's and my own backcut gears...although I've never really known what constitutes an "override", anyone care to elaborate? What I did was take off every other engagement dog (there were six, now three) on 2nd-5th with a die grinder, a boonman modded shift star, RZ drums & forks...

Yep YFZ450 two-piston calipers on a Banshee is about as easy as it gets; unbolt old ones, bolt on new ones, bleed 'em and ride. Banshee calipers on a Blaster needs a 'lil more tho I think, like spindles, hubs & rotors...

Looks damn good, I like the logo and how they pc'd the tie rods to match (most don't).

Cool I haven't seen those yet, first aftermarket source for PV controllers I've come across so far. How much longer until she's back together Ray???