Valin Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 I have my front end put together now on my shee, with the YFZ arms, YFZ Elka Duner shocks, and stock banshee spindles. I do not have the steering arms on the bike yet, but I find that the spindles are fairly hard to turn from side to side with just my hands. It seems like there is alot of stress on the balljoints. Does this happen when running the Banshee spindles with the YFZ arms? If so, I'm thinking about getting the YFZ spindles if it will fix this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAVAGE420 Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Yes the yfz spindles with help alot with no binding. Also i cant remember if your running stock offset wheels or not, but if you are it will have more bump steer than before. When i bought my ITP T9 bajas i got the rear rims with a very wide offset and got the fronts really narrow offset so that the center of the rim is as close to being over the balljoints as possible. It sits at 47 on the front with these rims and arms. Even if i went to a +4+1 arm it would just be over 50", if i did that with stock rims it would proly sit at 52-53" way to wide and WAY to much bump stear for me. Hope any of that helped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted October 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Yea, i'm running stock rims on mine. I'll look into picking up some yfz spindles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evro Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 i was going to use the banshee spindles when i did my swap, but after looking at some pics i noticed a huge difference in the geometry of the front end between banshee spindles and yfz spindles. With the banshee spindles your lower arms will be almost parallel to the ground (with a 16 1/2 or longer shock). With the LTR shocks, using the 450 spindles i was able to regain alot closer geometry to what the entirely stock setup offered, with a ton more travel. just compare my sig photos with one where the banshee spindles are being used and you'll see what i mean. with my stock front end i was also running 1.5 inch rim spacers on the front and as compared with the 450 setup, i got rid of the spacers and i'm still runnning wider by about 3 or 4 inches...with stock front rims. like chris, i'm thinking of matching my front rims up to my rear ITPs because the offset of my rear rims makes me way wider than stock...which is good for my type of terrain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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