pinned in 4th, broke a ball joint

[2k2shee]

ok well, i was trail riding and i got to this straight, i opened it up in 4th, it started whippin side to side then it skidded to a stop, i started the usual cussing under the breath and i found out the problem, the bolt snapped thru the cotter key hole in the lower left a-arm. so i walked home and got the tractor, loaded the banshee on the bushhog and toted it home. how can i fix this? is the ball joint replacable? the yamaha a-arm is $250! rediculous. if its not replacable im thinkin quicksand +2's and works triple rates

[roosthrower]

If you can afford it, go aftermarket. The ball joints are not replaceable and I have lost a ball joint also and it did suck. I nearly went over the bars after landing a small jump after my lower left ball joint gave. I had to stand on the opposite side nerf bar to ride it home. It was a long drive back.

[bbluebanshee]

I did the exact same thing this weekend!! I was going across some whoops in the sand in 3rd gear. I brought the front end up to make the trip across the whoops a little more bearable, and when i set the front down....snap. I looked down just in time to see my lower left a arm hit the sand and the tire whipped sideways... and over the handle bars i went.

[banshee0044]

this is crazy...that just happened to me about a month ago...and i went over the bars too

but thanks to quadmx i just got a lower set of a arms for cheap...ask around im sure someones got a set of lowers they could ship you out for close to nothing..

but liek roostthrower said...if you got the money..def. upgrade

[2k2shee]

yeah, im going aftermarket, i called quicksand and they said that the lower ball joints are a real weak point. im getting the reflex blue powdercoat. should look kickass, has anybody got the quad-rate works?

[John19]

yeah, im going aftermarket, i called quicksand and they said that the lower ball joints are a real weak point. im getting the reflex blue powdercoat. should look kickass, has anybody got the quad-rate works?

I was talking on the phone with gary(guy from qucksand) and we had a good 15 min. talk about shocks and he was telling me just to get the works dual rate shocks, good bang for the buck and they perform very good. My a-arms should be here sometime next week

Edited September 10, 2004 by John19

[Cowboy]

I had just bought my banshee, had it two days, was riding it into town to show it off to some of my buddies, and I had the lower A-arm come apart at the spindle....stripped nut believe it or not...yeah, a bent axle, broke my brand new bars, and ripped my fenders to shit doin about 40......

[sweetshee4312]

this kinda happened to me, but the nut fell off the ball joint and the a-arm fell off, stuck on a rock and launched me, then the quad fell on my head....thank god for tha, or i would be dead, or almost dead

[tithead]

NAXbansheeman has a set of +2 a-arms for sale, i think they are quicksand. give him a pm, hes dying to sell them!

[Big Blue]

I was talking on the phone with gary(guy from qucksand) and we had a good 15 min. talk about shocks and he was telling me just to get the works dual rate shocks, good bang for the buck and they perform very good. My a-arms should be here sometime next week

samething he told me 2 weeks ago when i ordered my a arms.

[2k2shee]

no offense to quicksand...but theyre slow as hell on delivery, it took something like 5-6 weeks. i like the a-arms, i just got them in yesterday, but it took forever, maybe i wont break these, gary told me that the banshee spindles are the softest spindles of any 4wheeler there is. but the new suspension is great, works triple rate and the +2,+1.