long story short my dad has been a gas pipe welder for 30 years but has no intrest in atv's ( and can't understand why i would want this) so i'm thinking of a stock height irs swap for now to make it painless for both of us. So the plan is to use rincon parts from the brake back any help would be great, and yall know better than me if this has no chance so feel free to say.
?'s would i need the whole frame or just rear sub frame? will my stock foreman shocks work , or do i need those? should the height & width between my front & rincon rear match close enuff with some tweeks?
thanks for any & all help
he will be here in Ga from Fl in a few weeks so i'm getting a parts list then he and i will come up with a game plan and go from there
show him some pics of what we build if he welds pipe then it should be a breeze for him
but rincons have no subframe... you have ot cut the back off the frame and weld it to the foreman... its not hard to do... but for me its cheeper to build one out of pipe.
you will need front shocks or rincon or grizzly rear shocks the foreman rear shocks are too soft
thanks jgmood i wasn't sure about the sub frame we probly could build a cage but he is only here for three weeks & don't have a pipe bender ,( last year i was building my house & used up most of his vac. time so i have to go easy on him)
yeah it wont take but a few days to knock it out. you can build the cage with only a couple bends in it that you can bend with a vice and a piece of 3" pipe cut in half to use as a mandrel
come straight back off the bottom of the frame, then make two small bends to go around the trunk, then tie them into the bottom pieces. Then tie the back pieces into the original frame just above where the airbox tabs are. run a few cross braces and your done
one way to speed up the build is to have the parts already there, the swing arm and rear plastic off, and frame clean. And build your mounting tabs before hand. That takes a lot of time doing them by hand.
youll need 24 if you put in stablizer bars you will need 32. just a piece of 1/4 or 3/16 plate about 1.5 inches wide and 3 inches long with a 27/64 drill bit. you can buy the plate at lowes or home depot.
after that you just bolt all the a-arms together on the tabs, square them up and weld it on.
on an irs he would just rake the hubs back and build new a-arms, or slide the tabs back some.... depending on how much he wanted he may not have to buy different axles. otherwise he would have to go with gorrila or turner.
i may also note the i think it will increase the wheelbase on the 500 just doing the conversion.
on a swing arm lift yes you can sleeve the drive shaft.
