Half Link Chains?

[QuadMX]

Is there someplace I could buy a half link for my chain? When I hacked it up for my -2.5" swingarm the chain just barely isn't long enough for a 15t front sprocket which I have and would like to try to use sometime.

[Cotton eyed Joe]

I'd stay away from 1/2 links. Have you tried to get another master link instead?

[MULLET~BOY]

ride it with the 14 for about a month and it will be stretched out enough

[frocashmoney24]

ye ai need a half link to, went out and put anouther whole link in it and its to damn long, without it its to damn short, so im thinkin i need a halfer...

[Cotton eyed Joe]

ye ai need a half link to, went out and put anouther whole link in it and its to damn long, without it its to damn short, so im thinkin i need a halfer...

There might be a half link kit out there that will work, but all I have seen are half link kits made with really thin side plates and spring pins (split roll pin) instead of a hardened dowel pin.

I wouldn't run one on a Huffy.

[BenBB]

Yes you can find half links, and I have run them, BUT nobody (including me) would recommend it on a Banshee. I don't think any of the manufacturers offer them for drive chains (DID, RK, Tsubaki, etc.) but a couple make them for 520 chain in other applications. The ones I've seen had cheap side plates as Stan said, and the pin is brittle (and held in place with a itty bitty cotter pin).

 

Mullet Boy's option is probably the best, or going with a smaller rear sprocket for a while until the chain stretches a little. I know it sucks when you want to run a certain gearing (or have to) and you can't but that's the way it goes sometimes...