Will a tri-z front hub fit on a 350x??

[nicker71]

Just as the title ask, will it fit? What would it take??
Thanks

[Zach]

I am not really sure the answer to this, but I would like to ask why you would want to do that? Even though trikes and trike parts are getting harder and harder to come by, there are a million more Honda trike parts out there than Yamaha. It would be cheaper and easier to stick with Honda parts. Unless there is something awesome you are planning I have no idea about, but for cost and availability I would just keep a 350x hub on the 350x

[nicker71]

I need to find a way to mount a 12" wheel up front. This seems like the only possible option without doing a lot of machine work maybe? I can't find a 12x6 or 12x7 with a center offset anywhere. I found a Douglas red label 12x8 4+4 but that's just a little too wide for my front tire I've selected. If I could find a plain 12x6 or 12x7 center offset wheel I would re drill to the 4x170 bolt pattern. But I haven't had any luck finding a wheel so now I'm looking at the tri z setup.
This is for a continuing custom auto x I'm working on.

[nicker71]

Bump anyone??

Maybe there's a better way to mount a 12" on a 350x?

[arisjunior]

I dont know about mounting just a hub, but you could put Z forks in your X triple and then just mount the hub into its native forks. The spread between the forks is nearly identical. I think it would give you an extra inch of suspension travel, though the springs are a bit soft for my tastes. For info: the Z wheels have a 205 mm bolt pattern and going to a 12 inch wheel will give you a much wider variety of tires available for it including some that are DOT legal. It feels more like a motorcycle when you go 11 to 12. Also trying to sync up your disc brakes from X forks to a Z hub would likely be problematic, though I dont knowfor sure.

[nicker71]

It's all good. I've already bought a tri-z hub from eBay. I'm going to make it work, I've already bought a 30" tire

[bkm]

Damn nick I wish I would have saw this ealier. I have a tri-z wheel, hub, and brand new 25" tire that I have zero use for.

[TheRealFatShady]

I'm looking to do the same thing my sx has a 350x front end but the front rim and tire just aren't big enough to look right with the rears.

[nicker71]

Damn nick I wish I would have saw this ealier. I have a tri-z wheel, hub, and brand new 25" tire that I have zero use for.

Bummer, I ran across some rather reasonable priced tri-z parts on eBay and bought them already. You going to be out at Sikeston again this year? I plan on making at least a few again.

[nicker71]

The hub bolts right in and lines up great with very little modifications.

[nicker71]

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30" tire on the tri-z wheel

[oscarmayer]

explain "very little modification"?

[nicker71]

explain "very little modification"?

Grind front axle spacer a little to align the brake rotor with caliper.

[oscarmayer]

hrmm, thanks for the info.

ideas are poping in my head as we speak!
Curses this million miles an hr brain sometimes!!!

[conbon]

Lathe .100-.105" off the tri-z axle spacer on the brake side, this will line up your rotor to factory 350x specs and pretty much put the rim dead center in the forks. Both use 8" rotors and same axle size, tri-z axle is a little longer (fork legs are like 1/8" further apart). Use tri-z rim, hub, rotor, bearings, and spacers with 350x axle on 350x forks, will line up perfect.

-Connor

[conbon]

Waiting on my roommate to bring the spacer back from work, he took it in with him to take the .100-105" off for me. Going from 25" tire to another 25" tire for now, but looking to go up to 27-28" soon.

-Connor

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u238/conbon575/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150801_145022459.jpg

[conbon]

Here's the difference in axles, first picture is tri-z axle in 350x forks, you can see how it doesn't stick out past the fork leg to push against the non-brake side spacer. Second picture is how much a 350x axle should stick out.

-Connor

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u238/conbon575/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150801_151732108.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u238/conbon575/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150801_151817345.jpg

[conbon]

When I test fit everything last night to see what I would need to do to make everything fit, the stock tri-z spacers and hub were the exact same width as the 350x forks, they touched both sides. The rim was also about 1/8" towards the non-brake side. The amount I'm machining off the brake side spacer (.100-.105") to line up the rotor should put the rim almost perfectly centered in between the fork legs, and now there should be a gap betwern the non-brake side spacer and non-brake side fork leg like in the picture above. I'll take a couple more pictures tonight once I get it all together.

-Connor

[conbon]

Okay, got it together. The stock rotor measured .750" from the fork leg, mine came out about .755" after machining the brake side spacer. I still need to trim off a little on the non-brake side as the axle still sticks out a little too far and I'm afraid it might damage the threads only being halfway in. Here's how she looks, now for a bigger tire!

-Connor

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u238/conbon575/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150801_1730575472.jpg

[nicker71]

Looks good!

[conbon]

That interforce you have rubs, right? I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for front tire now...

-Connor