aluminum rims

[Noel Woods]

Sorry for the slow response, I was taking care of some other business yesterday. Appears Tim replied in my stead. These wheels are super light and the quality is amongst the best I've ever seen for atv wheels. I'll try to get some digitals loaded today.

[kghills]

I agree...Douglas builds a great wheel...The wheel that Noel is using is pretty much identical to the Adair Max II Wheel kit. It has been custom built by DWT for Adair Argo Sales specifically for the purpose. It is an 8"x8" rim but has a unique 2+6 offset required to eliminate the need for a wheel spacer and the necessary 5 on 4.5" bolt pattern...it is the same heavier 190 guage wheel with the rolled in bead lock for low pressure applications...the valve stem has been located farther in for added protection and the most unique feature is it uses two small halves, instead of one small half and one large one...this not only makes it super easy to mount a tire, but allows the same tire to actually hold more air, increase water displacement, and float higher in the water, which all help it give a slight increase in water performance over a traditional steel wheel and heavy steel wheel spacers

Just thought you might find some of the details interesting...

Tim :-)

Here are some pictures of the rims Tim is talking about that I took when I was getting the Attex fitted with tracks. They shows how it compares to the steel wheels.

[Obsessed]

That's some cool information, Tim. You should also get some standard 4/4 offset 8x8 and 5/5 offset 9x10 rims in a 5x4.5" bolt pattern......they'd sell like hotcakes!

Thanks JP...I have often thought the same thing but I was wondering if they should still have a +1" offset to allow a little more clearance for oversized tires?...do you think that limited back clearance is much of an issue for most people upgrading their wheels?

Tim

[jpswift1]

Tim, I don't think the limited back clearance would be an issue. I think most people would buy these wheels as direct replacements for factory wheels so factory offset would most likely be best. I'm pretty confident that the smaller percentage of people buying these wheels would be the ones doing larger tire swaps, such as 25" tires on Max II's. These people would be a smaller market and they could still use stock offset wheels, but they would just have to buy some aluminum wheel spacers to run them, like Mike did for his 25" tires on his Max II. I believe he's running stock Argo or Mudd Ox wheels with 1 or 1.5" billet aluminum hub spacers.